467 Laura
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg Observatory |
Discovery date | 9 January 1901 |
Designations | |
(467) Laura | |
Pronunciation | /ˈlɔːrə/[1] Italian: [ˈlaura] |
1901 FY; 1954 OE; A924 RG | |
Orbital characteristics[2] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 115.03 yr (42015 d) |
Aphelion | 3.26446 AU (488.356 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.62441 AU (392.606 Gm) |
2.94444 AU (440.482 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.1086874 |
5.05 yr (1845.4 d) | |
5.2504112° | |
0° 11m 42.269s / day | |
Inclination | 6.43615° |
322.48119° | |
91.31635° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 41.96±3.2 km |
36.8 h (1.53 d) | |
0.0633±0.011 | |
10.9 | |
467 Laura (1901 FY) is Main-belt asteroid discovered on 9 January 1901 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg. The semi-major axis of the orbit of 467 Laura lies just inside the 7/3 Kirkwood gap, located at 2.95 AU.[3] It's named after the character Laura from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_467.png/220px-%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_467.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Kirkwood_Gaps.svg/220px-Kirkwood_Gaps.svg.png)
References
[edit]- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ "467 Laura (1901 FY)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Scholl, Hans; Froeschlé, Claude (September 1975), "Asteroidal motion at the 5/2, 7/3 and 2/1 resonances", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 (3): 457–463, Bibcode:1975A&A....42..457S
External links
[edit]- 467 Laura at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 467 Laura at the JPL Small-Body Database