363 Padua
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Auguste Charlois |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1893 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Padua |
| 1893 S | |
| Main belt (Lydia) | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5) | |
| Aphelion | 441.068 Gm (2.948 AU) |
| Perihelion | 380.897 Gm (2.546 AU) |
| 410.982 Gm (2.747 AU) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.073 |
| 1663.172 d (4.55 a) | |
Average orbital speed | 17.97 km/s |
| 5.679° | |
| Inclination | 5.951° |
| 64.995° | |
| 294.64° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 35 - 75 km |
| 8.88[2] | |
363 Padua a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 17, 1893 in Nice. It was named after the city of Padova, near Venice, Italy.[3]
Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999.[4]
Lightcurve data has also been recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill Observatory, which has been designated as an official observatory by the Minor Planet Center.[5]
References
- ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "363 Padua", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2013-03-25.
- ^ Warner, Brian D. (December 2007), "Initial Results of a Dedicated H-G Project", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 34, pp. 113–119, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
- ^ Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ^ Bus, S., Binzel, R. P. Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II. EAR-A-I0028-4-SBN0001/SMASSII-V1.0. NASA Planetary Data System, 2003.
- ^ Lightcurve Results
External links
- 363 Padua at the JPL Small-Body Database
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