500 Selinur is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Like 501 Urhixidur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.[2]
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 16 January 1903 |
| Designations | |
| (500) Selinur | |
| Pronunciation | German: [ˈzeːliːnʊɐ̯] |
| 1903 LA | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 112.90 yr (41238 d) |
| Aphelion | 2.9936 AU (447.84 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.2313 AU (333.80 Gm) |
| 2.6124 AU (390.81 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.14588 |
| 4.22 yr (1542.3 d) | |
| 43.1528° | |
| 0° 14m 0.312s / day | |
| Inclination | 9.7716° |
| 289.934° | |
| 74.510° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 21.60±0.55 km | |
| 8.0111 h (0.33380 d) | |
| 0.1804±0.009 | |
| 9.2 | |
References
edit- ^ "500 Selinur (1903 LA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-662-02804-9.
External links
edit- Lightcurve plot of 500 Selinur, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 500 Selinur at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 500 Selinur at the JPL Small-Body Database
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