890 Waltraut

890 Waltraut
Discovery[1]
Discovered by Max Wolf
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date 11 March 1918
Designations
MPC designation 890 Waltraut
Eos asteroids
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 95.39 yr (34842 days)
Aphelion 3.2017 AU (478.97 Gm)
Perihelion 2.8415 AU (425.08 Gm)
3.0216 AU (452.02 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.059606
5.25 yr (1918.5 d)
174.471°
 11m 15.54s / day
Inclination 10.872°
160.683°
90.307°
Earth MOID 1.85498 AU (277.501 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.86879 AU (279.567 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.216
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
13.665±0.85 km
12.581 h (0.5242 d)
0.1153±0.016
10.78

    890 Waltraut is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on March 11, 1918. It was named for a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Götterdämmerung or Twilight of the Gods.

    This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.[3]

    References

    1. Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets
    2. Yeomans, Donald K., "890 Waltraut", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 3 May 2016.
    3. Veeder, G. J.; et al. (March 1995), "Eos, Koronis, and Maria family asteroids: Infrared (JHK) photometry", Icarus, 114, pp. 186–196, Bibcode:1995Icar..114..186V, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.31.2739Freely accessible, doi:10.1006/icar.1995.1053.

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