Astronomy:67 Asia
| File:Asteroid 67 Asia. 5 exposures over 2 hours 13 Jan 2022 from UK. Approx 0.6° FoV (10 cycles).webm 67 Asia | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Norman Robert Pogson |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1861 |
| Designations | |
| (67) Asia | |
| Pronunciation | /ˈeɪʃiə/[1] |
| Named after | Asia and Asia |
| Minor planet category | Main belt |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5) | |
| |{{{apsis}}}|helion}} | 2.869 astronomical unit|AU (429.2 Gm) |
| |{{{apsis}}}|helion}} | 1.973 astronomical unit|AU (295.2 Gm) |
| 2.421 astronomical unit|AU (362.2 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.185 |
| Orbital period | 3.77 yr (1,376.048 d) |
| Mean anomaly | 182.178° |
| Inclination | 6.027° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 202.722° |
| |{{{apsis}}}|helion}} | 2023-Dec-10 |
| 106.301° | |
| Proper orbital elements | |
| Proper mean motion | 0.26133 deg / yr |
Proper Orbital period | 1377.56859 yr (503156.928 d) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 60.99 ± 2.41 km[2] |
| Mass | (1.03 ± 0.10) × 1018 kg[2] |
| Mean density | 8.66 ± 1.32 g/cm3[2] |
| Rotation period | 15.89 hours |
| Geometric albedo | 0.255 [3] |
| S | |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 8.28 |
Asia (minor planet designation 67 Asia) is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia, a Titaness in Greek mythology, and to the continent of Asia, because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.[4]
This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.77 years, a semimajor axis of 2.421 astronomical unit|AU, and an eccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1 commensurability with Mars, having an orbital period double that of the planet.[5] The orbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to the plane of the ecliptic. This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 61 km,[2] Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced a lightcurve that indicated a sidereal rotation period of 15.90±0.02 with an amplitude of 0.26±0.04 in magnitude.[6]
References
- ↑ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science 73: pp. 98–118, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009, Bibcode: 2012P&SS...73...98C. See Table 1.
- ↑ Asteroid Data Sets
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 22, ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3, https://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA22
- ↑ Plastino, A. R.; Vucetich, H. (August 1992), "Resonant asteroids and the equivalence principle", Astronomy and Astrophysics 262 (1): 321–325, Bibcode: 1992A&A...262..321P
- ↑ Ditteon, Richard; Hawkins, Scot (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Observatory – October–November 2006", The Minor Planet Bulletin 34 (3): 59–64, ISSN 1052-8091, Bibcode: 2007MPBu...34...59D.
External links
- 67 Asia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 67 Asia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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