- Source: 195 Eurykleia
195 Eurykleia is a fairly large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on April 19, 1879, and named after Euryclea, the wet-nurse of Odysseus in The Odyssey.
This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.88 years and a low eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.04. The orbital plane is inclined by 7° from the plane of the ecliptic. It is spinning with a rotation period of 16.5 hours and varies in brightness with an amplitude of 0.24 magnitude. The cross-section diameter of this body is 43 km. The asteroid has a taxonomic type of Ch in the SMASS classification, which indicates it has a dark surface with a primitive carbonaceous composition.
195 Eurykleia has been observed to occult stars twice, once in 2011 and again in 2021.
References
External links
195 Eurykleia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
195 Eurykleia at the JPL Small-Body Database
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar planet minor/101–200
- Daftar planet minor: 1–1000
- 195 Eurykleia
- 194 Prokne
- 195 (disambiguation)
- List of named minor planets: 1–999
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
- 196 Philomela
- List of minor planets: 1–1000
- Johann Palisa
- Eurycleia (disambiguation)
- List of named minor planets: E
