Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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571 Dulcinea | |
Mpc Name: | (571) Dulcinea |
Alt Names: | 1905 QZ |
Discovered: | 4 September 1905 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.24361 |
Semimajor: | 2.4093AU |
Perihelion: | 1.8224AU |
Aphelion: | 2.9963abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Period: | 3.74 yr (1366.0 d) |
Inclination: | 5.2282° |
Asc Node: | 3.1916° |
Arg Peri: | 27.650° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Orbit Ref: | [1] |
Observation Arc: | 110.57 yr (40387 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Abs Magnitude: | 11.59 |
Rotation: | 126.3abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
571 Dulcinea is an asteroid orbiting in the inner main belt. It was named after Dulcinea, a character from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. This is classified as a stony S-type asteroid and it is the second largest member of the Erigone collisional family.