611 Valeria
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Joel Hastings Metcalf |
Discovery site | Taunton, Massachusetts |
Discovery date | 24 September 1906 |
Designations | |
1906 VL | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 114.46 yr (41807 d) |
Aphelion | 3.3397 AU (499.61 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.6243 AU (392.59 Gm) |
2.9820 AU (446.10 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.11996 |
5.15 yr (1880.9 d) | |
71.676° | |
0° 11m 29.04s / day | |
Inclination | 13.445° |
189.431° | |
257.146° | |
Earth MOID | 1.67815 AU (251.048 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.01942 AU (302.101 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.207 |
Physical characteristics | |
28.485±0.7 km | |
6.977 h (0.2907 d)[1][2] | |
0.1148±0.006 | |
9.19 | |
611 Valeria is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf on September 24, 1906 from Taunton, Massachusetts.[3] The reason that the name Valeria was chosen is unknown.[4]
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico during 2012 gave a light curve with a period of 6.977 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.01 in magnitude. This result is consistent with a previous study from 2008.[2]
References
- ^ a b Yeomans, Donald K., "164 Eva", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b Pilcher, Frederick (October 2012), "Rotation Period Determinations for 47 Aglaja, 252 Clementina, 611 Valeria, 627 Charis, and 756 Lilliana", Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 39, pp. 220–222, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39..220P.
- ^ "Numbered Minor Planets 1–5000", Discovery Circumstances, IAU Minor Planet center, retrieved 2013-04-07.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2012), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (6th ed.), Springer, p. 60, ISBN 3642297188.
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