224 Oceana Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
224 Oceana
Discovered:30 March 1882
Mpc Name:(224) Oceana
Pronounced:, [1]
Alt Names:A882 FA, 1899 EA
1933 HO
Epoch:31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Semimajor:2.64508AU
Perihelion:2.53086AU
Aphelion:2.7593abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.043182
Period:4.30 yr (1571.3 d)
Inclination:5.84243°
Asc Node:352.815°
Arg Peri:284.346°
Avg Speed:18.31 km/s
Rotation:9.401abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Abs Magnitude:8.59
Mean Motion: / day
Orbit Ref:[2]
Observation Arc:117.02 yr (42742 d)
Uncertainty:0

224 Oceana is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 30 March 1882, in Vienna. It was named after the Pacific Ocean. Based upon its spectrum, it is classified as an M-type asteroid, but is not metallic.

A light curve generated from photometric observations of this asteroid at Pulkovo Observatory show a rotation period of 9.401 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

224 Oceana was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study, Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Notes and References

  1. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  2. Web site: 224 Oceana . https://web.archive.org/web/20200920071237/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=224;cad=1 . dead . 20 September 2020 . . . 12 May 2016.