179 Klytaemnestra
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | J. C. Watson |
Discovery date | November 11, 1877 |
Designations | |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Aphelion | 3.313 AU |
Perihelion | 2.628 AU |
2.971 AU | |
Eccentricity | 0.115 |
5.12 years | |
Inclination | 7.82° |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 75.02 ± 3.21[2] km |
Mass | (2.49 ± 1.19) × 1017[2] kg |
Mean density
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1.12 ± 0.55[2] g/cm3 |
11.173 hours | |
Albedo | 0.161 |
Spectral type
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S |
8.15 | |
179 Klytaemnestra is a fairly large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on November 11, 1877.[3] It was the last of his 22 asteroid discoveries,[4] and was named after Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon in Greek mythology. This is classified as a stony S-type asteroid, based upon its spectrum.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 11.13 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.55 ± 0.02 in magnitude.[5]
References
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