- Source: 35 Leukothea
35 Leukothea is a large, dark asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther on April 19, 1855, and named after Leukothea, a sea goddess in Greek mythology. Its historical symbol was a pharos (ancient lighthouse); it is in the pipeline for Unicode 17.0 as U+1CED0 ().
Leukothea is a C-type asteroid in the Tholen classification system, suggesting a carbonaceous composition. It is orbiting the Sun with a period of 5.17 years and has a cross-sectional size of 103.1 km.
Photometric observations of this asteroid from the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico during 2010 gave a light curve with a rotation period of 31.900±0.001 hours and a brightness variability of 0.42±0.04 in magnitude. This is consistent with previous studies in 1990 and 2008.
The computed Lyapunov time for this asteroid is 20,000 years, indicating that it occupies a chaotic orbit that will change randomly over time because of gravitational perturbations of the planets.
References
External links
35 Leukothea at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
35 Leukothea at the JPL Small-Body Database
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Asteroid
- Karl Theodor Robert Luther
- Daftar planet minor/1–100
- Daftar planet minor: 1–1000
- Apollo (mitologi)
- Helios
- 35 Leukothea
- 35
- Leucothea
- Astronomical symbols
- 262 Valda
- 264 Libussa
- Robert Luther
- 155 Scylla
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
- 137 Meliboea
