| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Joel Hastings Metcalf |
| Discovery site | Taunton, Massachusetts |
| Discovery date | 10 January 1910 |
| Designations | |
| (696) Leonora | |
| 1910 JJ | |
| main-belt · (outer) Meliboea [1] | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 95.46 yr (34866 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.9660 AU (593.31 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.3753 AU (355.34 Gm) |
| 3.1707 AU (474.33 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.25085 |
| 5.65 yr (2062.2 d) | |
| 307.652° | |
| 0° 10m 28.452s / day | |
| Inclination | 13.036° |
| 299.519° | |
| 104.093° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 37.88±1 km |
| 26.8964 h (1.12068 d) | |
| 0.0773±0.004 | |
| 9.4 | |
696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.[3]
References
- ↑ "Asteroid 696 Leonora – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0". Small Bodies Data Ferret. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ↑ "696 Leonora (1910 JJ)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 106. ISBN 9783662066157.
External links
- Lightcurve plot of 696 Leonora, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2005)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 696 Leonora at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 696 Leonora at the JPL Small-Body Database
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