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248 Lameia
Discovery A (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)
Discoverer Johann Palisa
Discovery date June 5, 1885
Alternate
designations
1959 LO B (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPDes.html)
Category Main belt
Orbital Elements C (http://asteroid.lowell.edu/)
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.065
Semi-major axis (a) 369.75 Gm (2.472 AU)
Perihelion (q) 345.599 Gm (2.31 AU)
Aphelion (Q) 393.9 Gm (2.633 AU)
Orbital period (P) 1419.265 d (3.89 a)
Mean orbital speed 18.95 km/s
Inclination (i) 4.05°
Longitude of the
ascending node
(Ω)
247.071°
Argument of
perihelion
(ω)
10.586°
Mean anomaly (M) 278.559°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 49.0 km
Mass unknown
Density unknown
Surface gravity unknown
Escape velocity unknown
Rotation period 12.00 h
Spectral class unknown
Absolute magnitude 10.21
Albedo 0.061
Mean surface
temperature
unknown

248 Lameia is a quite typical Main belt asteroid. Johann Palisa (December 6, 1848 – May 2, 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic). ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The provisional designation of comets and asteroids are similar to each other: they both follow a pattern set in 1925 by the Minor Planet Center of the IAU. Historical designations At first, astronomers strove to assign symbols to the minor planets: 1 Ceres a stylized sickle 2 Pallas a lozenge... Minor planet is the official term for asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the number of days that have elapsed since 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC (in the proleptic Julian calendar; or November 24, 4714 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar). ... (This page refers to eccitricity in astrodynamics. ... In geometry, the semi-major axis (also semimajor axis) a applies to ellipses and hyperbolas. ... Giga (symbol: G) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 109, or 1 000 000 000. ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... A day is any of several different units of time. ... A Julian year is the length of an average year in the Julian calendar, 365. ... The orbital speed of a body, generally a planet, a natural satellite, an artificial satellite, or a multiple star, is the speed at which it orbits around the barycenter of a system, usually around a more massive body. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... Inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit and is the angular distance of the orbital plane from the plane of the reference (usually planets equator or the ecliptic), stated in degrees. ... This article describes degree as a unit of angle. ... The Longitude of the ascending node () is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. ... The argument of the perihelion is one of the orbital elements describing the orbit of a planet. ... In the study of orbital dynamics the mean anomaly is a measure of time, specific to the orbiting body p, which is a multiple of 2π radians at and only at periapsis. ... Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... Gravitation is the tendency of masses to move toward each other. ... Escape Velocity means two things: the term escape velocity in physics the computer game Escape Velocity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In astronomy, a rotation period is the time an astronomical object takes to complete one revolution around its rotation axis. ... The hour was originally defined in Egypt as 1/24 of a day, based on their duo-decimal numbering system (which counted finger joints on each hand). ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... In astronomy, absolute magnitude is the apparent magnitude, m, an object would have if it were at a standardized distance away. ... The albedo is a measure of reflectivity of a surface or body. ... Temperature is the physical property of a system which underlies the common notions of hot and cold; the material with the higher temperature is said to be hotter. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...


It was discovered by Johann Palisa on June 5, 1885 in Vienna and was named after Lamia, a lover of Zeus. Johann Palisa (December 6, 1848 – May 2, 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic). ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Lamia by Herbert Draper Lamia is a mythological person: the daughter of Poseidon and Lybie. ... Statue of Zeus The Greek sculptor Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall Statue of Zeus in about 435 bc. ...


References

  • The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
  • Minor Planet Discovery Circumstances (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)
  • Asteroid Lightcurve Data File (http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT)


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  Results from FactBites:
 
AAC-L archives -- November 1999 (#5) (551 words)
IOTA/IOTA-ES occultation update for (248) Lameia / TYC 1260 00449 1 event on November 9/10, 1999 visible from southern Spain and Portugal in Europe, South Carolina, Georgia, NW Florida, S Alabama, very SE Louisiana, very SW Texas and north Mexico in North America Summary During Tuesday (tomorrow) night/Wed.
Maps of the new path will be placed either on, or linkable from (to the Degenhardt and/or JHUAPL IOTA sites), the asteroidal occultation section of http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota NOTE that the northern and southern limit lines on those plots are NOT accurate; the small circles within the path show accurately the location of the new central line.
An occultation by (248) Lameia was successfully observed from 5 stations in South Africa on June 27, 1998.
RASNZ Occultation Section - Lameia Occultation Update (652 words)
OCCULTATION BY (248) LAMEIA - 2006 JUN 26
On 2006 Jun 26 UT, the 49 km diameter asteroid (248) Lameia will occult a 11.7 mag star in the constellation Aquarius for observers along a path across north-western Western Australia.
In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star will drop by 2.7 mag to 14.3 mag (the magnitude of the asteroid) for at most 13.8 seconds.
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