236 Honoria
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
| Discovery date | 26 April 1884 |
| Designations | |
| A904 PA, 1930 KK, 1953 GJ1 |
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| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 131.97 yr (48201 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.3307 AU (498.27 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.2651 AU (338.85 Gm) |
| 2.79787 AU (418.555 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.19042 |
| 4.68 yr (1709.4 d) | |
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Average orbital speed
|
17.8 km/s |
| 294.554° | |
| 0° 12m 38.16s / day | |
| Inclination | 7.6942° |
| 185.861° | |
| 174.872° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.26121 AU (188.674 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.12229 AU (317.490 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.287 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 86.20±3.7 km |
| 12.336 h (0.5140 d) | |
| 0.1271±0.012 | |
| S | |
| 8.18 | |
236 Honoria is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on April 26, 1884 in Vienna. The asteroid was named after Honoria, granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, who started negotiations with Attila the Hun. It is classified as a stony S-type asteroid based upon its spectrum.
Polarimetric study of this asteroid reveals anomalous properties that suggests the regolith consists of a mixture of low and high albedo material. This may have been caused by fragmentation of an asteroid substrate with the spectral properties of CO3/CV3 carbonaceous chondrites.
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