558 Carmen

558 Carmen is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. As with a number of asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, it is named after a female character in opera, in this case the title character of Bizet's Carmen. This is classified as an M-type asteroid that spans a girth of approximately 59 km. The near infrared spectrum of this object is described as featureless. Some evidence for iron-poor orthopyroxenes on the surface has been reported.^[2]

558 Carmen

Discovery
Discovered by	M. F. Wolf
Discovery site	Heidelberg
Discovery date	9 February 1905
Designations
MPC designation	(558) Carmen
Alternative designations	1905 QB
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	111.15 yr (40,597 d)
Aphelion	3.0333 AU (453.78 Gm)
Perihelion	2.7817 AU (416.14 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.9075 AU (434.96 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.043262
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.96 yr (1,810.8 d)
Mean anomaly	216.857°
Mean motion	0° 11m 55.716s / day
Inclination	8.3757°
Longitude of ascending node	143.728°
Argument of perihelion	311.756°
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	29.655±0.9 km
Synodic rotation period	11.387 h (0.4745 d)
Geometric albedo	0.1161±0.007
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.09