365 Corduba

Corduba (minor planet designation: 365 Corduba) is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1893 from Nice. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.

365 Corduba
Discovery
Discovered byAuguste Charlois
Discovery date21 March 1893
Designations
(365) Corduba
Pronunciation/ˈkɔːrdjʊbə/[1][2]
1893 V
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[3]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc117.96 yr (43084 d)
Aphelion3.2417 AU (484.95 Gm)
Perihelion2.36078 AU (353.168 Gm)
2.80122 AU (419.057 Gm)
Eccentricity0.15723
4.69 yr (1712.5 d)
233.78°
0° 12m 36.792s / day
Inclination12.792°
185.196°
216.45°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions105.92±3.0 km[3]
104.51 ± 2.42 km[4]
Mass(5.84 ± 0.95) × 1018 kg[4]
Mean density
9.76 ± 1.73 g/cm3[4]
12.705 h (0.5294 d)
0.0335±0.002
C
9.2

    Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 6.551 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.05 in magnitude. This differs somewhat from a 2004 study that gave a period of 6.354 hours, but this difference may be explained by the small magnitude variation which tends to increase the randomizing effect of noise in the data.[5]

    References

    1. Walker (1830) A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names
    2. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
    3. Yeomans, Donald K., "365 Corduba", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
    4. Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science, 73, pp. 98–118, arXiv:1203.4336, Bibcode:2012P&SS...73...98C, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009. See Table 1.
    5. Warner, Brian D. (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory - June - October 2007", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 35 (2), pp. 56–60, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...56W.


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