579 Sidonia
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | A. Kopff |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 3 November 1905 |
Designations | |
(579) Sidonia | |
Pronunciation | /saɪˈdoʊniə/[1] |
1905 SD | |
Orbital characteristics[2] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 109.22 yr (39891 d) |
Aphelion | 3.2535 AU (486.72 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.7680 AU (414.09 Gm) |
3.0107 AU (450.39 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.080631 |
5.22 yr (1908.1 d) | |
161.100° | |
0° 11m 19.212s / day | |
Inclination | 11.009° |
82.737° | |
228.785° | |
Physical characteristics | |
42.785±1.1 km | |
16.286 h (0.6786 d) | |
0.1748±0.009 | |
8.07[3] 7.85[2] | |
579 Sidonia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by the German astronomer August Kopff on November 3, 1905. It was named after a character in Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Armide. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1905 SD.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sidonian". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020.
- ^ a b Yeomans, Donald K., "579 Sidonia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Warner, Brian D. (December 2007), "Initial Results of a Dedicated H-G Project", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 34, pp. 113–119, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
- ^ Veeder, G. J.; et al. (March 1995), "Eos, Koronis, and Maria family asteroids: Infrared (JHK) photometry", Icarus, vol. 114, pp. 186–196, Bibcode:1995Icar..114..186V, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.31.2739, doi:10.1006/icar.1995.1053.
External links
[edit]- 579 Sidonia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 579 Sidonia at the JPL Small-Body Database