454 Mathesis
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg (024) |
| Discovery date | March 28, 1900 |
| Designations | |
Designation | 454 |
Named after | mathematics |
| 1900 FC | |
| main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch August 27, 2011 | |
| Aphelion | 2.920 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.335 AU |
| 2.627 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.111 |
| 1555.587 d 4.26 a | |
| 41.460° | |
| Inclination | 6.29680067153217° |
| 32.418° | |
| 177.459° | |
| Proper orbital elements | |
Proper mean motion | 82.368 deg / yr |
Proper orbital period | 4.37063 yr (1596.372 d) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 81.57 km |
| 8.378 h | |
| Albedo | 0.0555 |
| 9.20 | |
454 Mathesis is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Altimira Observatory in 2004 gave a light curve with a period of 8.37784 ± 0.00003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. This differs from periods of 7.075 hours reported in 1994 and 7.745 hours in 1998.[2]
References
- ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "454 Mathesis", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2013-03-25.
- ^ Buchheim, Robert K. (June 2006), "Photometry of asteroids 133 Cyrene, 454 Mathesis, 477 Italia, and 2264 Sabrina", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 29–30, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...29B.
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