571 Dulcinea Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 571 Dulcinea (1905 QZ) . https://web.archive.org/web/20200917230959/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=571;cad=1 . dead . 17 September 2020 . . . 5 May 2016.