568 Cheruskia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Paul Götz |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 26 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 arc | 109.28 yr (39913 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.3652 AU (503.43 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.3978 AU (358.71 Gm) |
| 2.8815 AU (431.07 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.16787 |
| 4.89 yr (1786.6 d) | |
| 164.09° | |
| 0° 12m 5.4s / day | |
| Inclination | 18.392° |
| 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 | |
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.
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[edit]
- ^ 'Cherusci' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ a b Yeomans, Donald K., "568 Cheruskia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b 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.
External links[edit]
- Lightcurve plot of 568 Cheruskia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2008)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 568 Cheruskia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 568 Cheruskia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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