255 Oppavia
Oppavia (minor planet designation: 255 Oppavia) is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It classified as a dark P-type asteroid.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
| Discovery date | 31 March 1886 |
| Designations | |
| (255) Oppavia | |
| Pronunciation | /ɒˈpeɪviə/ |
Named after | Opava |
| A904 EC, A924 TA, 1938 VC, 1938 XC, 1945 GD, 1951 SG | |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 129.86 yr (47431 d) |
| Aphelion | 2.95866 AU (442.609 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.53342 AU (378.994 Gm) |
| 2.74604 AU (410.802 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.077427 |
| 4.55 yr (1662.1 d) | |
Average orbital speed | 17.98 km/s |
| 261.139° | |
| 0° 12m 59.735s / day | |
| Inclination | 9.47209° |
| 13.6708° | |
| 156.011° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 57.40±1.5 km |
| 19.499 h (0.8125 d) | |
| 0.0374±0.002 | |
| Temperature | unknown |
| P | |
| 10.39 | |
It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 31 March 1886 in Vienna and was named after Opava, a town in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary, where Palisa was born.
Oppavia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct Ceres asteroid family, but was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type.
References
- "255 Oppavia". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
External links
- Orbital simulation of asteroid 255 Oppavia
- Asteroid 255 Oppavia in Planetky z našich luhů a hájů (in Czech language)
- 255 Oppavia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 255 Oppavia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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