• Source: 317 Roxane

317 Roxane is an asteroid from the asteroid belt approximately 19 km in diameter. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois from Nice on September 11, 1891. The name was chosen by F. Bidschof, an assistant at the Vienna Observatory, at Charlois' request; Bidschof chose to name it after Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great, and at first used the spelling "Roxana".
In 2008, a team identified Roxane as the closest known spectroscopic match for the Peña Blanca Spring meteorite that landed in a swimming pool in Texas in 1946. There is a possibility, therefore, that 317 Roxane is from the same parent object as this meteorite.




Satellite


In 2009, a team using the Gemini North adaptive optics telescope discovered a moon orbiting Roxane. The moon is named Olympias, after the mother of Alexander the Great who was the king of Macedonia and husband of Roxana. Prior to its naming, the moon was provisionally named S/2009 (317) 1. It measures 5 km in diameter and orbits 245 km from Roxane, completing one orbit every 13 days.




See also


Aubrite
E-type asteroid




References






External links


http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/meteorite-pages/Pena_Blanca_Spring.htm
http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM32/AM32_354.pdf
Asteroids with Satellites, Robert Johnston, johnstonsarchive.net
317 Roxane at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
317 Roxane at the JPL Small-Body Database

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar planet minor/301–400
• Daftar planet minor: 1–1000
• 317 Roxane
• Roxane
• Roxana
• 318 Magdalena
• Auguste Charlois
• List of minor planets: 1–1000
• Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
• 316 Goberta
• Minor-planet moon
• USS Roxane