Asteroid orbiting the Sun in the main belt of asteroids
273 Atropos is a typical Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 8 March 1888 in Vienna .
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado , in 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 23.852 ± 0.003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.60 ± 0.03 in magnitude .[ 3]
References
^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^ a b Yeomans, Donald K., "273 Atropos" , JPL Small-Body Database Browser , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory , retrieved 11 May 2016 . ^ a b Warner, Brian D. (December 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory - March-May 2007", The Minor Planet Bulletin , vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 104– 107, Bibcode :2007MPBu...34..104W .
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