426 Hippo

426 Hippo
Discovery
Discovered by Auguste Charlois
Discovery date 25 August 1897
Designations
Named after
Hippo Regius
1897 DH
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 112.19 yr (40977 d)
Aphelion 3.1893 AU (477.11 Gm)
Perihelion 2.5893 AU (387.35 Gm)
2.8893 AU (432.23 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.10384
4.91 yr (1793.8 d)
17.53 km/s
247.692°
 12m 2.484s / day
Inclination 19.4771°
311.419°
222.319°
Earth MOID 1.62498 AU (243.094 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.92879 AU (288.543 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.198
Proper orbital elements[2]
2.88928 AU
0.179526
20.3798°
73.2862 deg / yr
4.91225 yr
(1794.199 d)
Precession of perihelion
32.8357 arcsec / yr
Precession of the ascending node
−59.8571 arcsec / yr
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 127.10±3.5 km[1]
34.3 h (1.43 d)
0.0469±0.003[1]
Temperature 154-171 K
F
8.42[1]

    426 Hippo is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 25, 1897, in Nice. In the 22nd century, it will come closer than 6,000,000 km (0.04 AU) to the larger asteroids 65 Cybele and 511 Davida.[1]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 426 Hippo (1897 DH)" (2013-06-21 last obs). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
    2. "AstDyS-2 (426) Hippo Synthetic Proper Orbital Elements". Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. Retrieved 2014-02-09.

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