Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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514 Armida | |
Mpc Name: | (514) Armida |
Alt Names: | 1903 MB |
Adjective: | Armidian |
Discovered: | 24 August 1903 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.041442 |
Semimajor: | 3.046AU |
Perihelion: | 2.9197AU |
Aphelion: | 3.1722abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Period: | 5.32 yr (1941.7 d) |
Inclination: | 3.8766° |
Asc Node: | 268.633° |
Arg Peri: | 107.727° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Orbit Ref: | [1] |
Observation Arc: | 112.50 yr (41092 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Abs Magnitude: | 9.04 |
Rotation: | 21.851abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Mean Radius: | km |
514 Armida is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. According to the Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances, it is "named for the beautiful legendary sorceress in Torquato Tasso’s (1544–1595) Jerusalem Delivered. She is the leading character in the opera Armida (composed 1777) by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)."[2] (Numerous other composers have written "Armida" operas; see Armida.)