160 Una Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
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.

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Notes and References

  1. Benjamin Smith (1903) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  2. Web site: Lightcurves and map data on numbered asteroids N° 1 to 52225. 2008-11-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20051127063200/http://www.astrosurf.com/aude-old/map_files/AstVarMAP01-2003.htm . 2005-11-27 .
  3. http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT Asteroid Lightcurve Data File, Updated March 1, 2001
  4. Web site: Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). 2005-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050224095554/http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html . 2005-02-24 .