605 Juvisia
Minor planet that orbits in the asteroid belt
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605 Juvisia is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt that was discovered 27 August 1906 in Heidelberg by German astronomer Max Wolf. It was named after the commune Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, where French astronomer Camille Flammarion had his observatory.
Discoverydate27 August 1906
Pronunciation/dʒuːˈvɪziə/
French: [ʒyvizia]
French: [ʒyvizia]
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 27 August 1906 |
| Designations | |
| Pronunciation | /dʒuːˈvɪziə/ French: [ʒyvizia] |
| 1906 UU | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 109.53 yr (40005 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.4164 AU (511.09 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.5809 AU (386.10 Gm) |
| 2.9986 AU (448.58 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.13932 |
| 5.19 yr (1896.6 d) | |
| 93.317° | |
| 0° 11m 23.316s / day | |
| Inclination | 19.663° |
| 342.852° | |
| 14.570° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 34.93±2.25 km | |
| 15.93 h (0.664 d)[2][1] | |
| 0.0397±0.006 | |
| 10.0 | |
Photometric observations at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1999 were used to build a light curve for this object. The asteroid displayed a rotation period of 15.93 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.25 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[2]
