500 Selinur
Appearance
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 16 January 1903 |
Designations | |
1903 LA | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 112.90 yr (41238 d) |
Aphelion | 2.9936 AU (447.84 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.2313 AU (333.80 Gm) |
2.6124 AU (390.81 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.14588 |
4.22 yr (1542.3 d) | |
43.1528° | |
0° 14m 0.312s / day | |
Inclination | 9.7716° |
289.934° | |
74.510° | |
Earth MOID | 1.25104 AU (187.153 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.51381 AU (376.061 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.373 |
Physical characteristics | |
21.60±0.55 km | |
8.0111 h (0.33380 d) | |
0.1804±0.009 | |
9.2 | |
500 Selinur is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Like 501 Urhixidur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.[2]
References
- ^ "500 Selinur (1903 LA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN 9783662028049.
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