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143 Adria

Main-belt asteroid


Main-belt asteroid

FieldValue
minorplanetyes
name143 Adria
background#D6D6D6
imageОрбита астероида 143.png
captionOrbital diagram
discovery_ref
discovererJ. Palisa
discovery_siteAustrian Naval Obs.
discovered23 February 1875
mpc_name(143) Adria
alt_namesA875 DA;
pronounced
named_afterAdriatic Sea
mp_categorymain-belt(middle)
background
orbit_ref
epoch23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)
uncertainty0
observation_arc138.03 yr (50,415 d)
aphelion2.9688 AU
perihelion2.5557 AU
semimajor2.7622 AU
eccentricity0.0748
period4.59 yr (1,677 d)
mean_anomaly354.65°
mean_motion/ day
inclination11.442°
asc_node333.04°
arg_peri252.89°
mean_diameter
mass7.6 kg
spectral_typeC
albedo
rotation22.005 h
abs_magnitude9.12

background

143 Adria is a fairly large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 23 February 1875, at the Austrian Naval Observatory, and named after the Adriatic Sea, on the coast of which the discovery was made. This dark-coloured asteroid has probably a primitive carbonaceous chondritic composition.

One occultation by Adria has been reported so far, from Japan on August 21, 2000. A somewhat spherical shape measuring 98 × 86 km was observed.

Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico gave an irregular light curve with a period of 22.005 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

References

References

  1. Noah Webster (1884) ''A Practical Dictionary of the English Language''
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