270 Anahita

270 Anahita

Discovery
Discovered by	C. H. F. Peters
Discovery date	October 8, 1887
Designations
Named after	Anahita
Alternative names	1926 VG
Minor planet category	Main belt
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Aphelion	2.53 AU
Perihelion	1.867 AU
Semi-major axis	2.198 AU
Eccentricity	0.151
Orbital period	1190.534 d (3.26 yr)
Average orbital speed	20.09 km/s
Mean anomaly	29.193°
Inclination	2.365°
Longitude of ascending node	254.568°
Argument of perihelion	80.427°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	50.78 km[1]
Rotation period	15.06 h
Albedo	0.217
Spectral type	S
Absolute magnitude (H)	8.75

270 Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887 in Clinton, New York, and was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita.

In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 0.92 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 47 ± 7 km.^[2]

References

1. "The Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey" Astron. J., 123, 1056-1085
2. Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 2015-04-14.

External links

• The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database
• Minor Planet Discovery Circumstances
• Asteroid Lightcurve Data File
• 270 Anahita at the JPL Small-Body Database

• Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters