374 Burgundia

374 Burgundia
Discovery
Discovered by Auguste Charlois
Discovery date 18 September 1893
Designations
Named after
Burgundy
1893 AK
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 112.39 yr (41051 d)
Aphelion 3.00578 AU (449.658 Gm)
Perihelion 2.5566 AU (382.46 Gm)
2.7812 AU (416.06 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.080763
4.64 yr (1694.1 d)
17.86 km/s
295.379°
 12m 45s / day
Inclination 8.9881°
219.030°
25.153°
Earth MOID 1.54706 AU (231.437 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.99547 AU (298.518 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.310
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 44.67±1.3 km
6.972 h (0.2905 d)
0.3014±0.018
S
8.67,[1] 8.68[2]

    374 Burgundia is a typical main belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 18, 1893 in Nice. It was named for the former French region of Burgandy. It is one of seven of Charlois's discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut (Astronomical Calculation Institute).[3]

    Burgundia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct Ceres asteroid family, but it was found to be an unrelated interloper in that group based on its non-matching composition.[4]

    References

    1. 1 2 Yeomans, Donald K., "374 Burgundia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
    2. Warner, Brian D. (December 2007), "Initial Results of a Dedicated H-G Project", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 34, pp. 113–119, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
    3. Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
    4. Cellino, A . et al. "Spectroscopic Properties of Asteroid Families", in Asteroids III, University of Arizona Press, pp. 633-643 (2002).

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