280 Philia
Appearance
Orbital diagram | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
Discovery date | 29 October 1888 |
Designations | |
(280) Philia | |
Pronunciation | /ˈfɪliə/ |
Named after | Philia (nymph) |
A888 UB | |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 126.17 yr (46,083 d) |
Aphelion | 3.26133 AU (487.888 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.62787 AU (393.124 Gm) |
2.94460 AU (440.506 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.10756 |
5.05 yr (1,845.6 d) | |
52.7987° | |
0° 11m 42.212s / day | |
Inclination | 7.44582° |
9.91179° | |
90.0510° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 45.69±2.0 km |
70.26 h (2.928 d) | |
0.0444±0.004 | |
10.9 | |
280 Philia is a fairly large Main belt asteroid.[2] It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 29 October 1888 at the Vienna Observatory.
Sparse data collected during a 1987 study indicated this asteroid has a rotation period of approximately 64 hours, which is much longer than can be continually observed from one site. During 2010−2011, an international collaboration to study the asteroid collected 9,037 photometric data points over 38 sessions. The resulting light curve analysis displays a rotation period of 70.26±0.03 h with a brightness variation of 0.15±0.02 in magnitude.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "280 Philia". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ Lewis, James R. (2003). The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences. p. 521. ISBN 9781578591442. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ Pilcher, Frederick; et al. (July 2011), "Rotation Period Determination for 280 Philia - A Triumph of Global Collaboration", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 127–128, Bibcode:2011MPBu...38..127P.
External links
[edit]- 280 Philia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 280 Philia at the JPL Small-Body Database