1119 Euboea
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | October 27, 1927 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch October 27, 2007 (JD 2454400.5) TDB | |
| Aphelion | 3.011 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.212 AU |
| 2.612 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1529 |
| 1541.6813 d(4.22 a) | |
| 71.105° | |
| Inclination | 7.867° |
| 57.4780° | |
| 229.060° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 31.49 km |
| Albedo | 0.0590 |
| 11.20 | |
1119 Euboea is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on October 27, 1927, at Heidelberg, Germany. Its provisional designation was 1927 UB. It was named for Euboea, or Negropont, the largest island of Greece in the Aegean.[2] The asteroid is 31½ kilometers in diameter and completes one revolution around the Sun in about 4 years.[1]
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2007 show a rotation period of 11.41 ± 0.201 hours with a brightness variation of 0.5 ± 0.02 magnitude.[3]
References
- ^ a b "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Retrieved October 9, 2007.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ^ Torno, Steven; Lemke Oliver, Robert; Ditteon, Richard (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory - October 2007", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, 35 (2): 54–55, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...54T.
