467 Laura Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
467 Laura
Discoverer:Max Wolf
Discovery Site:Heidelberg Observatory
Discovered:9 January 1901
Mpc Name:(467) Laura
Alt Names:1901 FY; 1954 OE; A924 RG
Pronounced:[1]
pronounced as /it/
Orbit Ref:[2]
Epoch:31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Aphelion:3.26446abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Perihelion:2.62441AU
Semimajor:2.94444AU
Eccentricity:0.1086874
Period:5.05 yr (1845.4 d)
Inclination:6.43615°
Asc Node:322.48119°
Mean Anomaly:5.2504112°
Arg Peri:91.31635°
Abs Magnitude:10.9
Mean Motion: / day
Observation Arc:115.03 yr (42015 d)
Uncertainty:0
Rotation:36.8abbr=onNaNabbr=on

467 Laura (1901 FY) is Main-belt asteroid discovered on 9 January 1901 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg. The semi-major axis of the orbit of 467 Laura lies just inside the 7/3 Kirkwood gap, located at 2.95 AU. It's named after the character Laura from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda.

Notes and References

  1. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  2. Web site: 467 Laura (1901 FY) . https://web.archive.org/web/20200916144204/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=467;cad=1 . dead . 16 September 2020 . . . 10 May 2016.