387 Aquitania
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | F. Courty |
Discovery date | 5 March 1894 |
Designations | |
Named after | Aquitaine |
1894 AZ | |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 122.11 yr (44601 d) |
Aphelion | 3.38699 AU (506.686 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.09422 AU (313.291 Gm) |
2.74060 AU (409.988 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.23586 |
4.54 yr (1657.2 d) | |
Average orbital speed | 18.0 km/s |
244.115° | |
0° 13m 2.057s / day | |
Inclination | 18.1246° |
128.298° | |
157.160° | |
Earth MOID | 1.08787 AU (162.743 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 1.88283 AU (281.667 Gm) |
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.239 |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | ±2.9 km 100.51[1] |
Mass | 1.8×1018 kg[2][3] |
Mean density | 3.27 ± 1.11[4] g/cm3 |
24.144 h (1.0060 d)[1] | |
±0.011 0.1900[1] | |
S[1] | |
7.41[1] | |
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387 Aquitania is a fairly large main-belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.
It was discovered by F. Courty on March 5, 1894, in Bordeaux. It was second of his two asteroid discoveries. The first was 384 Burdigala.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 387 Aquitania (1894 AZ)" (2008-06-15 last obs). Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ Michalak, G. (2001). "Determination of asteroid masses". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 374 (2): 703–711. Bibcode:2001A&A...374..703M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20010731. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ↑ (Mass estimate of Aquitania 0.0094 / Mass of Ceres 4.75) * Mass of Ceres 9.43E+20 = 1.866E+18
- ↑ Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science, 73, pp. 98–118, arXiv:1203.4336, Bibcode:2012P&SS...73...98C, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009. See Table 1.
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