Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
Discovery date | 8 March 1888 |
Designations | |
Named after
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Atropos |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 105.94 yr (38695 d) |
Aphelion | 2.7792 AU (415.76 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.01097 AU (300.837 Gm) |
2.39507 AU (358.297 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.16037 |
3.71 yr (1353.9 d) | |
Average orbital speed
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19.24 km/s |
127.80° | |
0° 15m 57.276s / day | |
Inclination | 20.454° |
158.957° | |
121.16° | |
Earth MOID | 1.05986 AU (158.553 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.64578 AU (395.803 Gm) |
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.427 |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | ±1.3 km 29.27 |
23.924 h (0.9968 d) 23.852 h |
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±0.015 0.1624 | |
10.26 | |
273 Atropos is a typical Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on March 8, 1888 in Vienna.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 23.852 ± 0.003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.60 ± 0.03 in magnitude.