1252 Celestia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | F. L. Whipple |
| Discovery site | Oak Ridge Obs. (Harvard) |
| Discovery date | 19 February 1933 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | (1252) Celestia |
|
Named after
|
Celestia Whipple (mother) |
| 1933 DG · 1934 PA1 | |
| main-belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 82.95 yr (30297 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.2536 AU (486.73 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.1345 AU (319.32 Gm) |
| 2.6940 AU (403.02 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.20769 |
| 4.42 yr (1615.1 d) | |
| 274.17° | |
| 0° 13m 22.404s / day | |
| Inclination | 33.844° |
| 140.93° | |
| 63.675° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.2739 AU (190.57 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.07743 AU (310.779 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.101 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 17.4 km |
|
Mean radius
|
8.695±0.8 km |
| 10.636 h (0.4432 d) | |
| 0.2573±0.053 | |
|
B–V = 0.890 U–B = 0.425 S (Tholen), S (SMASS) |
|
| 10.89 | |
1252 Celestia, provisional designation 1933 DG, is a stony main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1933, by American astronomer Fred Whipple at Oak Ridge Observatory operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Massachusetts, United States. The S-type asteroid measures about 17 kilometers in diameter, rotates once every 10.6 hours and is heavily tilted towards the ecliptic by almost 34 degrees.
It was named after the mother of the discoverer, Celestia MacFarland Whipple.
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