266 Aline
Main-belt asteroid
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266 Aline is a fairly large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on 17 May 1887 in Vienna and is thought to have been named after the daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss. It is a dark C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. 266 Aline is orbiting close to a 5:2 mean motion resonance with Jupiter, which is located at 2.824 AU.[4]
Orbit of Aline | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
| Discovery date | 17 May 1887 |
| Designations | |
| (266) Aline | |
| A887 KA | |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 124.91 yr (45623 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.24229 AU (485.040 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.36559 AU (353.887 Gm) |
| 2.80394 AU (419.463 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.15633 |
| 4.70 yr (1715.0 d) | |
Average orbital speed | 17.79 km/s |
| 53.2036° | |
| 0° 12m 35.708s / day | |
| Inclination | 13.3989° |
| 235.904° | |
| 150.489° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 109.09±2.9 km[1] 107.95 ± 6.62 km[2] |
| Mass | (4.15 ± 0.42) × 1018 kg[2] |
Mean density | 6.29 ± 1.32 g/cm3[2] |
| 13.018 h (0.5424 d)[1] 13.02 h[3] | |
| 0.0448±0.003 | |
| C | |
| 8.80 | |
Photometric observations made in 2012 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, produced a light curve with a period of 13.018 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[3]
In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.41 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 109 ± 15 km.[5]
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