313 Chaldaea

313 Chaldaea
Discovery
Discovered by Johann Palisa
Discovery date August 30, 1891
Designations
Named after
Chaldea
Main belt
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Aphelion 2.803 AU
Perihelion 1.949 AU
2.376 AU
Eccentricity 0.18
1337.741 d
(3.66 yr)
19.32 km/s
211.772°
Inclination 11.646°
176.826°
315.775°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 96.0 km
Spectral type
C
8.9

    313 Chaldaea is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.[1] It was discovered by Johann Palisa on August 30, 1891 in Vienna.

    In 2003, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.07 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 96 ± 14 km.[2]

    References

    1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". JPL. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
    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.

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