- Source: 495 Eulalia
495 Eulalia is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Eulalia is very near the 3:1 Jupiter orbital resonance.
It is possible that the disruption of Eulalia's parent body resulted in a mass bombardment of the Earth and Moon 800 million years ago, forming the Copernicus crater on the Moon and involving about 50 times the amount of material of the Chicxulub impact on Earth at the beginning of the Cryogenian geological period.
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 495 Eulalia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2012)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
495 Eulalia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
495 Eulalia at the JPL Small-Body Database
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 495 Eulalia
- Eulalia
- Copernicus (lunar crater)
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
- 142 Polana
- 162173 Ryugu
- List of minor planets: 1–1000
- Asteroid family
- Max Wolf
- 496 Gryphia
