166 Rhodope
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A three-dimensional model of 166 Rhodope based on its light curve. | |
| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | C. H. F. Peters |
| Discovery site | Clinton, New York |
| Discovery date | 15 August 1876 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 166 |
Named after | Rhodope |
| Main belt (Adeona) | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 130.59 yr (47698 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.25282 AU (486.615 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.11631 AU (316.595 Gm) |
| 2.68457 AU (401.606 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2116743 |
| 4.40 yr (1606.6 d) | |
| 234.96296° | |
| 0° 13m 26.669s / day | |
| Inclination | 12.02883° |
| 128.92036° | |
| 264.56022° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.16072 AU (173.641 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.32252 AU (347.444 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.311 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 54.564 km[2] |
| 4.715 h (0.1965 d) | |
| 0.0747 ± 0.0160[2] | |
| GC:[2] (Tholen) | |
| 9.89,[1] 9.750[2] | |
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166 Rhodope is a main belt asteroid, a member of the Adeona family of asteroids. It was discovered by the German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 15, 1876, in Clinton, New York, and named after Rhodope, the queen in Greek mythology who was turned into a mountain.
166 Rhodope was observed occulting the prominent star Regulus on October 19, 2005, from Vibo Valentia, Italy.[3]
References
- 1 2 Yeomans, Donald K., "166 Rhodope", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 12 May 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Pravec, P.; et al. (May 2012), "Absolute Magnitudes of Asteroids and a Revision of Asteroid Albedo Estimates from WISE Thermal Observations", Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16–20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan (1667), Bibcode:2012LPICo1667.6089P. See Table 4.
- ↑ Sigismondi, Costantino; Troise, Davide (September 2008), "Asteroidal Occultation of Regulus: Differential Effect of Light Bending", Proceedings of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity. Held 23–29 July 2006 in Berlin, Germany, pp. 2594–2596, Bibcode:2008mgm..conf.2594S, doi:10.1142/9789812834300_0469.
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