696 Leonora
Main-belt asteroid
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696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.[3]
Discoverydate10 January 1910
(696) Leonora
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Joel Hastings Metcalf |
| Discovery site | Taunton, Massachusetts |
| Discovery date | 10 January 1910 |
| Designations | |
| (696) Leonora | |
| 1910 JJ | |
| main-belt · (outer) Meliboea[1] | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 95.46 yr (34866 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.9660 AU (593.31 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.3753 AU (355.34 Gm) |
| 3.1707 AU (474.33 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.25085 |
| 5.65 yr (2062.2 d) | |
| 307.652° | |
| 0° 10m 28.452s / day | |
| Inclination | 13.036° |
| 299.519° | |
| 104.093° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 37.88±1 km | |
| 26.8964 h (1.12068 d) | |
| 0.0773±0.004 | |
| 9.4 | |
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