134 Sophrosyne
Tholen)[3] | |
| 9.04,[2] 8.770[3] | |
Sophrosyne (
Robert Luther on 27 September 1873, and was named after the concept of sophrosyne, Plato's term for 'moderation'. Classified as a C-type asteroid, it has an exceedingly dark surface and most probably a primitive carbonaceous composition.[citation needed
]
An
rotation period of 17.190±0.001 h with a variation amplitude of 0.28±0.01 in magnitude. This provided a good match to the only previous determination in 1989.[5]
References
- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ Bibcode:2012LPICo1667.6089P.
- ^ .
- ^ Bibcode:2015MPBu...42..280P.
- Bibcode:1983acm..proc..107T.
External links
- 134 Sophrosyne at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 134 Sophrosyne at the JPL Small-Body Database
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