490 Veritas
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Veritas, minor planet designation 490 Veritas, is a carbonaceous Veritasian asteroid, which may have been involved in one of the more massive asteroid-asteroid collisions of the past 100 million years. It was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory on 3 September 1902.
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg Obs. |
Discovery date | 3 September 1902 |
Designations | |
(490) Veritas | |
Pronunciation | /ˈvɛrɪtæs/[1] |
1902 JP | |
main-belt · (outer) Veritas [2] | |
Adjectives | Veritasian[3] |
Orbital characteristics[4] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 113.37 yr (41409 d) |
Aphelion | 3.4715 AU (519.33 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.8719 AU (429.63 Gm) |
3.1717 AU (474.48 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.094527 |
5.65 yr (2063.2 d) | |
31.094° | |
0° 10m 28.164s / day | |
Inclination | 9.2809° |
178.335° | |
194.390° | |
Earth MOID | 1.87147 AU (279.968 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 1.98443 AU (296.867 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.175 |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 110.96 ± 3.80 km[5] 115.55±5.5 km[4] |
Mass | (5.99 ± 2.23) × 1018 kg[5] |
Mean density | 8.37 ± 3.23 g/cm3[5] |
7.930 h (0.3304 d) | |
0.0622±0.006 | |
8.53,[6] 8.32[4] | |
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