311 Claudia

Claudia (minor planet designation: 311 Claudia) is a typical Main belt asteroid.

311 Claudia
A three-dimensional model of 311 Claudia based on its light curve
Discovery
Discovered byAuguste Charlois
Discovery date11 June 1891
Designations
(311) Claudia
Pronunciation/ˈkldiə/[1]
Main belt (Koronis)
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc113.31 yr (41387 d)
Aphelion2.90489 AU (434.565 Gm)
Perihelion2.89097 AU (432.483 Gm)
2.89793 AU (433.524 Gm)
Eccentricity0.0024026
4.93 yr (1801.9 d)
260.154°
 11m 59.24s / day
Inclination3.22695°
81.0114°
51.4007°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions24.05±1.8 km
7.532 h (0.3138 d)
0.3381±0.057
10.0

    It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 11 June 1891 in Nice.[3] The name was suggested to Charlois by the amateur astronomer Arthur Mee of Cardiff, Wales, to commemorate Mee's wife, Claudia.[4]

    311 Claudia is one of the Koronis family of asteroids. A group of astronomers, including Lucy D'Escoffier Crespo da Silva and Richard P. Binzel, used observations made between 1998 through 2000 to determine the spin-vector alignment of these asteroids. The collaborative work resulted in the creation of 61 new individual rotation lightcurves to augment previous published observations.[5]

    References

    1. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
    2. "311 Claudia". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
    3. Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
    4. Mee, Arthur B. P. (2 April 1910), "Astronomical Notes", Weekly Mail, p. 11, retrieved 25 August 2013
    5. Slivan, S. M., Binzel, R. P., Crespo da Silva, L. D., Kaasalainen, M., Lyndaker, M. M., Krco, M.: "Spin vectors in the Koronis family: comprehensive results from two independent analyses of 213 rotation lightcurves",Icarus, 162, 2003, pp. 285–307.


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