307 Nike
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| Discovered by | Auguste Charlois | ||||||||||||||||
| Discovery site | Nice | ||||||||||||||||
| Discovery date | March 5, 1891 | ||||||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||||||
Named after | Nike | ||||||||||||||||
| 1957 LM | |||||||||||||||||
| Main belt | |||||||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Epoch 27 June 2015 (JD 2457200.5) | |||||||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.3238 AU (497.23 Gm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.4937 AU (373.05 Gm) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2.9087 AU (435.14 Gm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1427 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1811.9985 d (4.96 yr) | |||||||||||||||||
Average orbital speed | 17.46 km/s | ||||||||||||||||
| 90.7048° | |||||||||||||||||
| Inclination | 6.1256° | ||||||||||||||||
| 100.999° | |||||||||||||||||
| 325.038° | |||||||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 54.96 km (34.15 mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| 7.902 ± 0.005 h[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Albedo | 0.0524 | ||||||||||||||||
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Spectral type | C | ||||||||||||||||
| 10.12 | |||||||||||||||||
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307 Nike is a sizeable asteroid of the main belt. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 5, 1891 in Nice. Charlois named it after the Greek goddess of victory, as well as the Greek name for the city where it was discovered.[4] Measurement of the light curve of this asteroid in 2000 indicates a rotation period of 7.902 ± 0.005 hours.[2]
On December 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 made one of its nearest passages of an asteroid when it passed 307 Nike at a distance of about 8.8 million kilometers (0.059 AU) during the spacecraft's pioneering trip through the asteroid belt.[5]
References
- ↑ "307 Nike". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. SPK-ID: 307.
- 1 2 Lazar, S.; Lazar, P., III; Cooney, W.; Wefel, K. (June 2001). "Lightcurves and Rotation Periods for Minor Planets (305) Gordonia (307) Nike, (337) Devosa, and (352) Gisela". The Minor Planet Bulletin 28: 32–34. Bibcode:2001MPBu...28...32L.
- ↑ "Planetary Habitability Calculators". Planetary Habitability Laboratory. University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names. Physics and astronomy online library 1 (5th ed.). Springer. p. 41. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ Fimmel, Richard O.; van Allen, James; Burgess, Eric (1980). Pioneer: first to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond. Washington D.C., USA: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office.
External links
- 307 Nike at the JPL Small-Body Database
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