255 Oppavia

255 Oppavia
Discovery
Discovered by Johann Palisa
Discovery date March 31, 1886
Designations
Named after
Opava
A904 EC, A924 TA,
1938 VC, 1938 XC,
1945 GD, 1951 SG
Main belt
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Aphelion 443.748 Gm (2.966 AU)
Perihelion 377.374 Gm (2.523 AU)
410.561 Gm (2.744 AU)
Eccentricity 0.081
1660.616 d (4.55 a)
17.98 km/s
74.62°
Inclination 9.486°
13.774°
152.96°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 57.0 km
Mass unknown
Mean density
unknown
unknown
unknown
unknown
Albedo 0.0374
Temperature unknown
Spectral type
P
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    255 Oppavia is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It classified as a dark P-type asteroid.

    It was discovered by Johann Palisa on March 31, 1886 in Vienna and was named after Opava, town in the Czech Republic (then part of Austria-Hungary), where Palisa was born.

    Oppavia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct Ceres asteroid family, but was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type.

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