1116 Catriona

1116 Catriona

Discovery [1]
Discovered by	C. Jackson
Discovery site	Johannesburg (UO)
Discovery date	5 April 1929
Designations
MPC designation	1116 Catriona
Named after	Robert Louis Stevenson[2]
Alternative names	1929 GD · 1926 RQ A908 AC
Minor planet category	main-belt
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	108.27 yr (39544 days)
Aphelion	3.5950 AU (537.80 Gm)
Perihelion	2.2517 AU (336.85 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.9233 AU (437.32 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.22975
Orbital period	5.00 yr (1825.6 d)
Mean anomaly	269.39°
Mean motion	0° 11^m 49.884^s / day
Inclination	16.524°
Longitude of ascending node	356.52°
Argument of perihelion	82.698°
Earth MOID	1.33399 AU (199.562 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	2.00527 AU (299.984 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.179
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	19.56±0.35 km
Rotation period	8.832 h (0.3680 d)
Geometric albedo	0.1522±0.006
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.8

1116 Catriona is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.25 to 3.59 AU. It was discovered by Cyril Jackson on April 5, 1929, at Johannesburg Union Observatory, South Africa. Its provisional designation was 1929 GD. The relatively bright asteroid is approximately 39 kilometers in diameter and completes one revolution once every 5.00 years.^[1]

It was probably named after Catriona, the 1893-novel by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer.^[2]

References

1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1116 Catriona (1929 GD)" (2015-05-13 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1116) Catriona. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 95. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

External links

• Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
• 1116 Catriona at the JPL Small-Body Database
  
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