Main-belt asteroid
67 Asia is a large main belt asteroid . It was discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory . Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia , a Titaness in Greek mythology , and to the continent of Asia , because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.[ 4]
This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.77 years, a semimajor axis of AU eccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1 commensurability with Mars , having an orbital period double that of the planet.[ 5] orbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to the plane of the ecliptic . This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 61 km,[ 2] Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced a lightcurve that indicated a sidereal rotation period of ± 0.02amplitude of ± 0.04[ 6]
References
^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^ a b c d Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science , vol. 73, pp. 98–118, arXiv :1203.4336 Bibcode :2012P&SS...73...98C , doi :10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009 . ^ Asteroid Data Sets Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3 ^ Plastino, A. R.; Vucetich, H. (August 1992), "Resonant asteroids and the equivalence principle", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 262 (1): 321–325, Bibcode :1992A&A...262..321P ^ Ditteon, Richard; Hawkins, Scot (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Observatory – October–November 2006", The Minor Planet Bulletin , 34 (3): 59–64, Bibcode :2007MPBu...34...59D , ISSN 1052-8091 .
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