266 Aline Explained

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266 Aline
Discovered:17 May 1887
Mpc Name:(266) Aline
Alt Names:A887 KA
Epoch:31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Semimajor:2.80394AU
Perihelion:2.36559AU
Aphelion:3.24229abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.15633
Period:4.70 yr (1715.0 d)
Inclination:13.3989°
Asc Node:235.904°
Arg Peri:150.489°
Avg Speed:17.79 km/s
Dimensions:
107.95 ± 6.62 km
Density:6.29 ± 1.32 g/cm3
Rotation:13.018abbr=onNaNabbr=on
13.02 h
Abs Magnitude:8.80
Mean Motion: / day
Orbit Ref:[1]
Observation Arc:124.91 yr (45623 d)
Uncertainty:0

266 Aline is a fairly large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on 17 May 1887 in Vienna and is thought to have been named after the daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss. It is a dark C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. 266 Aline is orbiting close to a 5:2 mean motion resonance with Jupiter, which is located at .

Photometric observations made in 2012 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, produced a light curve with a period of 13.018 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.41 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of .

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 266 Aline . . . 11 May 2016.