Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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614 Pia | |
Mpc Name: | (614) Pia |
Alt Names: | 1906 VQ |
Discovered: | 11 October 1906 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.11115 |
Semimajor: | 2.6936AU |
Perihelion: | 2.3942AU |
Aphelion: | 2.993abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Period: | 4.42 yr (1614.7 d) |
Inclination: | 7.0266° |
Asc Node: | 217.291° |
Arg Peri: | 208.792° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Orbit Ref: | [1] |
Observation Arc: | 109.50 yr (39996 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Abs Magnitude: | 11.0 |
Rotation: | 4.572abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Mean Radius: | km |
614 Pia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.August Kopff discovered 614 Pia on 11 October 1906 at Heidelberg, Germany.[2] [3]
Its name may have been inspired by the Pia Observatory at Trieste, Italy, which German astronomer Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865 - 1902) named for his wife, Pia.[2] Pia is Italian for "pious."