890 Waltraut
Appearance
Discovery[1] | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg Observatory |
Discovery date | 11 March 1918 |
Designations | |
(890) Waltraut | |
main-belt Eos | |
Orbital characteristics [2] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 95.39 yr (34842 days) |
Aphelion | 3.2017 AU (478.97 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.8415 AU (425.08 Gm) |
3.0216 AU (452.02 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.059606 |
5.25 yr (1918.5 d) | |
174.471° | |
0° 11m 15.54s / day | |
Inclination | 10.872° |
160.683° | |
90.307° | |
Physical characteristics | |
13.665±0.85 km | |
12.581 h (0.5242 d) | |
0.1153±0.016 | |
10.78 | |
890 Waltraut is an Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 11 March 1918. It was named for a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets
- ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "890 Waltraut", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ Veeder, G. J.; et al. (March 1995), "Eos, Koronis, and Maria family asteroids: Infrared (JHK) photometry" (PDF), Icarus, vol. 114, pp. 186–196, Bibcode:1995Icar..114..186V, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.31.2739, doi:10.1006/icar.1995.1053.
External links
[edit]- 890 Waltraut at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 890 Waltraut at the JPL Small-Body Database