167 Urda

From HandWiki - Reading time: 2 min

Short description: Main-belt asteroid
167 Urda
167Urda (Lightcurve Inversion).png
A three-dimensional model of 167 Urda based on its light curve.
Discovery
Discovered byC. H. F. Peters
Discovery siteClinton, New York
Discovery date28 August 1876
Designations
(167) Urda
Pronunciation/ˈɜːrdə/
Named afterUrd
A876 QA; 1899 KC;
1905 QA; 1906 WA
Minor planet categorymain belt (Koronis asteroid family)
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc132.01 yr (48218 d)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}2.9583526 astronomical unit|AU (442.56325 Gm)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}2.7493497 AU (411.29686 Gm)
2.8538511 AU (426.93005 Gm)
Eccentricity0.0366177
Orbital period4.82 yr (1760.9 d)
Mean anomaly37.607175°
Mean motion0° 12m 15.969s / day
Inclination2.212408°
Longitude of ascending node166.21859°
133.03586°
Earth MOID1.73392 AU (259.391 Gm)
Jupiter MOID2.10867 AU (315.453 Gm)
TJupiter3.302
Physical characteristics
Dimensions39.94±1.9 km
Rotation period13.07 h (0.545 d)
Geometric albedo0.2230±0.023
S
Absolute magnitude (H)9.1


Urda (minor planet designation: 167 Urda) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 28, 1876, in Clinton, New York, and named after Urd, one of the Norns in Norse mythology. In 1905, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa showed that the asteroid varied in brightness.[2]

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007–8 gave a light curve with a period of 13.06133 ± 0.00002 hours.[3] This S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family of asteroids that share similar orbital elements.[4]

In 2002, a diameter estimate of 37.93 ± 3.17 km was obtained from the Midcourse Space Experiment observations, with an albedo of 0.2523 ± 0.0448.[5]

A stellar occultation by Urda was observed from Japan on July 23, 2001.[6]

References

  1. Yeomans, Donald K., "167 Urda", JPL Small-Body Database Browser (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=167, retrieved 12 May 2016. 
  2. Maddrill, James D. (December 1905), "Variable Asteroid (167) Urda", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 17 (105): pp. 190–192, doi:10.1086/121648, Bibcode1905PASP...17..186.. 
  3. Warner, Brian D. et al. (October 2008), "Shape and Spin Models for Four Asteroids", The Minor Planet Bulletin 35 (4): pp. 167–171, Bibcode2008MPBu...35..167W. 
  4. Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin, eds. (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 164–165, https://books.google.com/books?id=2FNfjWKBZx8C&pg=PA165. 
  5. Tedesco, Edward F. et al. (July 2002), "The Midcourse Space Experiment Infrared Minor Planet Survey", The Astronomical Journal 124 (124): pp. 583–591, doi:10.1086/340960, Bibcode2002AJ....124..583T. 
  6. "Observed Minor Planet Occultation Events - Asteroidal Occultations". http://mpocc.astro.cz/world/mpocc1.txt. 

External links





Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Astronomy:167_Urda
4 views | Status: cached on August 12 2024 22:58:45
↧ Download this article as ZWI file
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF