365 Corduba Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
365 Corduba
Discovered:21 March 1893
Mpc Name:(365) Corduba
Named After:Possibly Córdoba, Spain[1]
Pronounced:[2] [3]
Alt Names:1893 V
Epoch:31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Semimajor:2.80122AU
Perihelion:2.36078AU
Aphelion:3.2417abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.15723
Period:4.69 yr (1712.5 d)
Inclination:12.792°
Asc Node:185.196°
Arg Peri:216.45°
Dimensions:
104.51 ± 2.42 km
Density:9.76 ± 1.73 g/cm3
Rotation:12.705abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Abs Magnitude:9.2
Mean Motion: / day
Observation Arc:117.96 yr (43084 d)
Uncertainty:0

365 Corduba is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1893 from Nice. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 6.551 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.05 in magnitude. This differs somewhat from a 2004 study that gave a period of 6.354 hours, but this difference may be explained by the small magnitude variation which tends to increase the randomizing effect of noise in the data.

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Notes and References

  1. Schmadel, L. (2003:45). Dictionary of minor planet names. Germany: Springer.
  2. Walker (1830) A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names
  3. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language