270 Anahita
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. H. F. Peters |
| Discovery date | October 8, 1887 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Anahita |
| 1926 VG | |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5) | |
| Aphelion | 2.53 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.867 AU |
| 2.198 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.151 |
| 1190.534 d (3.26 yr) | |
Average orbital speed | 20.09 km/s |
| 29.193° | |
| Inclination | 2.365° |
| 254.568° | |
| 80.427° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 50.78 km[1] |
| 15.06 h | |
| Albedo | 0.217 |
Spectral type | S |
| 8.75 | |
270 Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887 in Clinton, New York, and was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita.
In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 0.92 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 47 ± 7 km.[2]
References
- ^ "The Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey" Astron. J., 123, 1056-1085
- ^ Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus, 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 2015-04-14.
External links
- The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database
- Minor Planet Discovery Circumstances
- Asteroid Lightcurve Data File
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