Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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409 Aspasia | |
Discovered: | 9 December 1895 |
Mpc Name: | (409) Aspasia |
Alt Names: | 1895 CE |
Adjective: | Aspasian |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Semimajor: | 2.5752AU |
Perihelion: | 2.3865AU |
Aphelion: | 2.764abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Eccentricity: | 0.073284 |
Period: | 4.13 yr (1509.5 d) |
Inclination: | 11.262° |
Asc Node: | 242.19° |
Arg Peri: | 353.72° |
Dimensions: | 176.33 ± 4.50 km |
Density: | 4.10 ± 0.84 g/cm3 |
Rotation: | 9.022abbr=onNaNabbr=on 9.021 h |
Abs Magnitude: | 7.62 |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Observation Arc: | 120.33 yr (43952 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
409 Aspasia is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 9 December 1895 in Nice. It is classified as a CX-type asteroid.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007–8 gave a light curve with a period of 9.021455 ± 0.000009 hours. This is consistent with previous results.