Georgia (minor planet designation: 359 Georgia) is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.
 Orbital diagram | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Auguste Charlois |
| Discovery date | 10 March 1893 |
| Designations | |
| (359) Georgia | |
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɔːrdʒə/ JOR-jə[1] |
Named after | King George II |
| 1893 M | |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 114.10 yr (41676 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.1562 AU (472.16 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.2999 AU (344.06 Gm) |
| 2.7280 AU (408.10 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.15693 |
| 4.51 yr (1645.8 d) | |
| 323.972° | |
| 0° 13m 7.464s / day | |
| Inclination | 6.7716° |
| 6.0731° | |
| 338.526° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 43.89±4.2 km |
| 5.537 h (0.2307 d) | |
| 0.2621±0.059 | |
| X | |
| 8.86 | |
It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 10 March 1893 in Nice. It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where Klein was a professor. It was named after the University's founder King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover.[3]
References edit
- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ "359 Georgia (1893 M)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel (2003) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1, International Astronomical Union, Springer, ISBN 3-540-00238-3, p. 45
External links edit
- Lightcurve plot of 359 Georgia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 359 Georgia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 359 Georgia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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