339 Dorothea

339 Dorothea
Discovery
Discovered by Max Wolf
Discovery date 25 September 1892
Designations
Named after
Dorothea Klumpke
1892 G
Main belt (Eos)
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 123.55 yr (45128 d)
Aphelion 3.3041 AU (494.29 Gm)
Perihelion 2.71937 AU (406.812 Gm)
3.01176 AU (450.553 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.097082
5.23 yr (1909.1 d)
17.15 km/s
271.598°
 11m 18.852s / day
Inclination 9.9640°
173.512°
164.360°
Earth MOID 1.71147 AU (256.032 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.10581 AU (315.025 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.219
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 38.25±1.6 km
5.974 h (0.2489 d)
0.2431±0.021
SK
9.24

    339 Dorothea is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg.

    This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that were probably formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.[2]

    References

    1. Yeomans, Donald K., "339 Dorothea", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
    2. Veeder, G. J.; et al. (March 1995), "Eos, Koronis, and Maria family asteroids: Infrared (JHK) photometry", Icarus, 114, pp. 186–196, Bibcode:1995Icar..114..186V, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.31.2739Freely accessible, doi:10.1006/icar.1995.1053, retrieved 2013-04-06.

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