72 Feronia
.png) A three-dimensional model of 72 Feronia based on its light curve. | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters |
| Discovery date | May 29, 1861 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | (72) Feronia |
| Pronunciation | /fɛˈroʊniə/[1] |
Named after | Feronia |
| Main belt | |
| Adjectives | Feronian |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5) | |
| Aphelion | 2.539 AU (379.8 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.993 AU (298.1 Gm) |
| 2.266 AU (339.0 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.121 |
| 1,246.123 days (3.41 a) | |
| 146.950° | |
| Inclination | 5.417° |
| 208.137° | |
| 102.608° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 83.95±4.02 km[2] |
| Mass | (3.32±8.49)×1018 kg[2] |
Mean density | 10.71±27.44 g/cm3[2] |
| 8.09068 h[3] | |
Pole ecliptic latitude | 287 or 102[3] |
Pole ecliptic longitude | −39 or −55[3] |
| 0.063[4] | |
| TDG[5] | |
| 8.94 | |
72 Feronia (minor planet designation: 72 Feronia) is a somewhat large and dark Main belt asteroid. It was the first asteroid that C. H. F. Peters discovered on May 29, 1861, in Hamilton College, New York.[6] At first, people thought that Peters saw the already known asteroid 66 Maja. But T.H. Safford showed that it was a new body. Safford named it after Feronia, a Roman fertility goddess.[7]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science, 73: 98–118, arXiv:1203.4336, Bibcode:2012P&SS...73...98C, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009, S2CID 119226456. See Table 1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hanuš, J.; et al. (September 2013), "Sizes of main-belt asteroids by combining shape models and Keck adaptive optics observations", Icarus, 226 (1): 1045−1057, arXiv:1308.0446, Bibcode:2013Icar..226.1045H, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2013.07.023, S2CID 118710558.
- ↑ "Asteroid Data Sets". Archived from the original on 17 December 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2007.
- ↑ *JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- ↑ Sheehan, William (1999), "Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters", Biographical Memoirs, vol. 76, National Academies Press, p. 289, ISBN 0309064341.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (fifth ed.). Germany: Springer. p. 22. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 2008-12-31.