Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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160 Una | |
Discovered: | 20 February 1876 |
Mpc Name: | (160) Una |
Pronounced: | [1] |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Semimajor: | 2.72802AU |
Perihelion: | 2.54727AU |
Aphelion: | 2.90877abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Eccentricity: | 0.066257 |
Period: | 4.51 yr (1645.8 d) |
Inclination: | 3.82512° |
Asc Node: | 8.60989° |
Arg Peri: | 52.8418° |
Avg Speed: | 18.01 km/s |
Mass: | 5.6×1017 kg (assumed) |
Density: | 2.0? g/cm3 |
Surface Grav: | 0.0227 m/s2 |
Escape Velocity: | 0.0429 km/s |
Rotation: | 11.033abbr=onNaNabbr=on 0.234 d (5.61 h)[2] |
Spectral Type: | C[3] |
Abs Magnitude: | 9.08, 8.95 |
Albedo: | 0.063[4] |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Observation Arc: | 118.30 yr (43209 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Moid: | 1.56031AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 2.30107AU |
Tisserand: | 3.349 |
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. It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).
In the Tholen classification system it is categorized as a CX-type, while the Bus asteroid taxonomy system lists it as an Xk asteroid. Photometric observations of this asteroid made at the Torino Observatory in Italy during 1990–1991 were used to determine a synodic rotation period of 5.61 ± 0.01 hours.