393 Lampetia
Lampetia (minor planet designation: 393 Lampetia) is a fairly large main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 4 November 1894 in Heidelberg. It has an unusually low rotation rate, with a period estimated at 38.7 hours and a brightness variation of 0.14 in magnitude.[4]
 Orbital diagram | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery date | 4 November 1894 |
| Designations | |
| (393) Lampetia | |
| Pronunciation | /læmˈpiːʃiə/[1][2] |
Named after | Lampetia |
| 1894 BG | |
| Main belt | |
| Symbol | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} |
| Orbital characteristics[3] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 112.56 yr (41112 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.6980 AU (553.21 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8568 AU (277.77 Gm) |
| 2.7774 AU (415.49 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.33146 |
| 4.63 yr (1690.6 d) (4.63 yr) | |
| 173.245° | |
| 0° 12m 46.584s / day | |
| Inclination | 14.879° |
| 212.460° | |
| 2023-Aug-15 | |
| 90.824° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 96.89±31.4 km |
| 38.7 h (1.61 d)[3][4] | |
| 0.0829±0.099 | |
| 8.39 | |
In 2000, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 0.98 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 125 ± 20 km.[5]
It comes to opposition at apparent magnitude 10.5 on 6 July 2023[6] and then perihelion on 15 August 2023.[3]
References
- James Knowles (1851) A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language
- Joseph Thomas (1908) Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology
- "393 Lampetia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 10 May 2016.
- Scaltriti, F.; Zappala, V.; Schober, H. J. (January 1979), "The rotations of 128 Nemesis and 393 Lampetia - The longest known periods to date", Icarus, vol. 37, pp. 133–141, Bibcode:1979Icar...37..133S, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(79)90121-0.
- Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus, 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 14 April 2015.
- JPL Horizons (Opposition)
External links
- 393 Lampetia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 393 Lampetia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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