160 Una
Synodic rotation period | 11.033 h (0.4597 d)[2] 0.234 d (5.61 h)[3][4] | |
| 0.0625±0.003[2] 0.063[5] | ||
| Temperature | ~170 K | |
| C[6] | ||
| 9.08,[2] 8.95[7] | ||
Una (
minor planet designation: 160 Una) is a fairly large and dark, primitive Main belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on February 20, 1876, in Clinton, New York.[8] It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene
(1590).
In the
rotation period of 5.61 ± 0.01 hours.[3]
References
- ^ Benjamin Smith (1903) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- ^ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ .
- ^ "Lightcurves and map data on numbered asteroids N° 1 to 52225". Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ "Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)". Archived from the original on 24 February 2005. Retrieved 24 February 2005.
- ^ Asteroid Lightcurve Data File, Updated March 1, 2001
- Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
- ^ "Numbered Minor Planets 1–5000", Discovery Circumstances, IAU Minor Planet center, retrieved 7 April 2013.
- doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.005, archived from the original(PDF) on 17 March 2014, retrieved 8 April 2013. See appendix A.
External links
- 2011-Jan-24 Occultation / (2011 Asteroidal Occultation Results for North America)
- 160 Una at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 160 Una at the JPL Small-Body Database
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