365 Corduba
Synodic rotation period | 12.705 h (0.5294 d) | |
| 0.0335±0.002 | ||
| C | ||
| 9.2 | ||
Corduba (
minor planet designation: 365 Corduba) is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1893 from Nice. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous
material.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 6.551 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.05 in magnitude. This differs somewhat from a 2004 study that gave a period of 6.354 hours, but this difference may be explained by the small magnitude variation which tends to increase the randomizing effect of noise in the data.[6]
References
- ^ Walker (1830) A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names
- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ Schmadel, L. (2003:45). Dictionary of minor planet names. Germany: Springer.
- ^ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ . See Table 1.
- Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...56W.
External links
- Lightcurve plot of 365 Corduba, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 365 Corduba at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 365 Corduba at the JPL Small-Body Database
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