658 Asteria

658 Asteria
Discovery
Discovered by	August Kopff
Discovery site	Heidelberg
Discovery date	23 January 1908
Designations
Pronunciation	/əˈstɪəriə/
Alternative designations	1908 BW
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	109.62 yr (40038 d)
Aphelion	3.0400 AU (454.78 Gm)
Perihelion	2.6661 AU (398.84 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.8530 AU (426.80 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.065512
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.82 yr (1760.2 d)
Mean anomaly	239.630°
Mean motion	0° 12m 16.272s / day
Inclination	1.5061°
Longitude of ascending node	351.004°
Argument of perihelion	61.086°
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	11.475±0.6 km
Synodic rotation period	21.034 h (0.8764 d)
Geometric albedo	0.2040±0.024
Absolute magnitude (H)	10.54

658 Asteria is an asteroid orbiting around the Sun at a distance of around 2.85 AU taking around 4.8 years to complete an orbit. It has a mean radius of about 11.47 kilometers.

History

It was discovered in on the 23rd of January, 1908 by the German astronomer August Kopff in the city Heidelberg. The name appears to have four different meanings in ancient Greek mythology. The first is Asteria the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and the sister of Leto. The second is being one of the fifty daughters of Danaus. The third is Apollodorus stating that Asteria was a daughter of Atlas. The fourth and final is Asteria being the name of a town in Greece. The object was lost in 1908.

References

↑ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
↑ "658 Asteria (1908 BW)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997), Schmadel, Lutz D. (ed.), "Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances", Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 17–831, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-06615-7_2, ISBN 978-3-662-06615-7, retrieved 25 September 2026{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
↑ "Ephemeris of the minor planet (658) Asteria". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. 1927. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

External links

658 Asteria at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
658 Asteria at the JPL Small-Body Database
- Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit viewer · Orbit parameters · Physical parameters

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[1] Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language

[jpldata-2] "658 Asteria (1908 BW)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

[3] Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997), Schmadel, Lutz D. (ed.), "Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances", Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 17–831, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-06615-7_2, ISBN 978-3-662-06615-7, retrieved 25 September 2026{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

[4] "Ephemeris of the minor planet (658) Asteria". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. 1927. Retrieved 25 September 2026.