293 Brasilia

293 Brasilia
Discovery
Discovered by Auguste Charlois
Discovery date May 20, 1890
Designations
Named after
Brazil
Main belt (Brasilia clump)
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Aphelion 472.664 Gm (3.16 AU)
Perihelion 383.305 Gm (2.562 AU)
427.984 Gm (2.861 AU)
Eccentricity 0.104
1767.438 d (4.84 a)
17.61 km/s
330.384°
Inclination 15.587°
61.43°
88.846°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 55.0 km
9.94

    293 Brasilia is a large Main belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on May 20, 1890 in Nice.

    Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Leura Observatory in Leura, Australia during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 8.173 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.20 ± 0.03 in magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. Yeomans, Donald K., "293 Brasilia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), retrieved 2013-03-30.
    2. Oey, Julian (December 2006), "Lightcurves analysis of 10 asteroids from Leura Observatory", The Minor Planet Bulletin 33 (4), pp. 96–99, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...96O.

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