103 Hera

103 Hera
Discovery
Discovered by James Craig Watson[1]
Discovery date 7 September 1868[1]
Designations
Named after
Hera
1927 CV, 1950 CM
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)[1]
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 144.99 yr (52958 d)
Aphelion 2.92042 AU (436.889 Gm)[1]
Perihelion 2.48175 AU (371.265 Gm)[1]
2.70109 AU (404.077 Gm)[1]
Eccentricity 0.0812034[1]
4.44 yr (1621.5 d)[1]
18.09 km/s
133.341°
 13m 19.279s / day
Inclination 5.41957°
136.186°
188.361°
Earth MOID 1.46898 AU (219.756 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.32392 AU (347.653 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.356
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 91.20±5.6 km
Mass 7.9×1017 kg
Equatorial surface gravity
0.0255 m/s²
Equatorial escape velocity
0.0482 km/s
23.740 h (0.9892 d)[2]
0.9892 d[3]
0.1833±0.025
Temperature ~170 K
S[4]
7.66

    103 Hera is a moderately large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 7, 1868,[5] and named after Hera, queen and fifth in power of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology. It is an S-type asteroid[4] with a silicate surface composition.

    Photometric observations made in 2010 at the Organ Mesa Observatory at Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the Hunters Hill Observatory at Ngunnawal, Australian Capital Territory, give a synodic rotation period of 23.740 ± 0.001 hours. The bimodal light curve shows a maximum brightness variation of 0.45 ± 0.03 in magnitude.[3]

    Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 91.58 ± 4.14 km and a geometric albedo of 0.19 ± 0.02. By comparison, the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 88.30 ± 8.51 km and a geometric albedo of 0.20 ± 0.04. When the asteroid was observed occulting a star, the results showed a diameter of 89.1 ± 1.1 km.[6]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 JPL Small-Body Database Browser
    2. 1 2 Yeomans, Donald K., "103 Hera", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 12 May 2016.
    3. 1 2 Pilcher, Frederick (January 2011), "Rotation Period Determination for 103 Hera", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 38 (1), p. 32, Bibcode:2011MPBu...38...32P.
    4. 1 2 DeMeo, Francesca E.; et al. (2011), "An extension of the Bus asteroid taxonomy into the near-infrared" (PDF), Icarus, 202 (1): 160–180, Bibcode:2009Icar..202..160D, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.005, retrieved 2013-03-22. See appendix A.
    5. "Numbered Minor Planets 1–5000", Discovery Circumstances, IAU Minor Planet center, retrieved 2013-04-07.
    6. Ryan, Erin Lee; et al. (April 2012), "The Kilometer-Sized Main Belt Asteroid Population as Revealed by Spitzer", eprint arXiv, arXiv:1204.1116Freely accessible, Bibcode:2012arXiv1204.1116R.

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