650 Amalasuntha

650 Amalasuntha is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on October 4, 1907, at Heidelberg. It was named after Amalasuntha,^[3] the queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534 AD. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1907 AM.

650 Amalasuntha

Discovery
Discovered by	August Kopff
Discovery site	Heidelberg
Discovery date	4 October 1907
Designations
MPC designation	(650) Amalasuntha
Alternative designations	1907 AM
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	108.51 yr (39635 d)
Aphelion	2.9093 AU (435.23 Gm)
Perihelion	2.0076 AU (300.33 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.4584 AU (367.77 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.18339
Orbital period (sidereal)	3.85 yr (1408.0 d)
Mean anomaly	84.6795°
Mean motion	0° 15m 20.484s / day
Inclination	2.5576°
Longitude of ascending node	215.571°
Argument of perihelion	178.366°
Physical characteristics
Synodic rotation period	16.582 h (0.6909 d)[2][1]
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.93

Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2007 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, were used to create a light curve plot. This showed a rotation period of 16.582 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.44 ± 0.03 magnitude during each cycle.^[2]