Minorplanet: | yes |
Mpc Name: | (195) Eurykleia |
Alt Names: | A879 HA; |
Background: |
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195 Eurykleia | |
Semimajor: | 2.8764adj=ri2NaNadj=ri2 |
Perihelion: | 2.7493adj=ri2NaNadj=ri2 |
Aphelion: | 3.0036AU |
Period: | 1781.9days |
Inclination: | 6.9718° |
Eccentricity: | 0.044205 |
Abs Magnitude: | 9.01 |
Discoverer: | J. Palisa, 1879 |
Discovered: | 19 April 1879 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Asc Node: | 6.9930° |
Arg Peri: | 119.12° |
Mean Anomaly: | 113.56° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Observation Arc: | 48208order=flipNaNorder=flip |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Moid: | 1.77052AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 2.01174AU |
Tisserand: | 3.284 |
195 Eurykleia is a fairly large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on April 19, 1879, and named after Euryclea, the wet-nurse of Odysseus in The Odyssey.
This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 1781.9days and a low eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.04. The orbital plane is inclined by 7° from the plane of the ecliptic. It is spinning with a rotation period of 16.5 hours and varies in brightness with an amplitude of 0.24 magnitude. The cross-section diameter of this body is 43 km. The asteroid has a taxonomic type of Ch in the SMASS classification, which indicates it has a dark surface with a primitive carbonaceous composition.
195 Eurykleia has been observed to occult stars twice, once in 2011 and again in 2021.