568 Cheruskia

Cheruskia (minor planet designation: 568 Cheruskia) is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt that was discovered by German astronomer Paul Götz on 26 July 1905 from Heidelberg.

568 Cheruskia
Discovery
Discovered byPaul Götz
Discovery siteHeidelberg
Discovery date26 July 1905
Designations
(568) Cheruskia
Pronunciation/kɛˈrʌskiə/,[1]
German: [çeːˈʁʊskiaː]
1905 QS
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc109.28 yr (39913 d)
Aphelion3.3652 AU (503.43 Gm)
Perihelion2.3978 AU (358.71 Gm)
2.8815 AU (431.07 Gm)
Eccentricity0.16787
4.89 yr (1786.6 d)
164.09°
0° 12m 5.4s / day
Inclination18.392°
249.791°
174.386°
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
43.495±0.9 km
13.209 h (0.5504 d)[2][3]
0.0535±0.002
9.5

    Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2008 gave a light curve with a period of 13.209 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.01 in magnitude. This is in disagreement with a previous study reported in 2000 that gave a period estimate of 14.654 hours.[3]

    References

    1. 'Cherusci' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
    2. Yeomans, Donald K., "568 Cheruskia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 5 May 2016.
    3. Warner, Brian D. (January 2009), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory: 2008 May - September", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 7–13, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36....7W.


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