270 Anahita

270 Anahita
Discovery
Discovered by C. H. F. Peters
Discovery date 8 October 1887
Designations
Named after
 Anahita
1926 VG
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 118.40 yr (43246 d)
Aphelion 2.5290 AU (378.33 Gm)
Perihelion 1.8692 AU (279.63 Gm)
2.1991 AU (328.98 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.15003
3.26 yr (1191.2 d)
20.09 km/s
219.26°
0° 18m 8.028s / day
Inclination 2.3667°
254.390°
80.490°
Earth MOID 0.860249 AU (128.6914 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.80609 AU (419.785 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.651
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 50.78±2.0 km[1]
50.78 km[2]
15.06 h (0.628 d)
0.2166±0.018
S
8.75

    270 Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887 in Clinton, New York, and was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita.

    In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 0.92 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 47 ± 7 km.[3]

    References

    1. 1 2 "270 Anahita". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
    2. ↑ "The Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey" Astron. J., 123, 1056-1085
    3. ↑ Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus, 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 2015-04-14.

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