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267 Tirza
Discovery A
Discoverer Auguste Charlois
Discovery date May 27, 1887
Alternate
designations
A922 AA, 1965 GC B
Category Main belt
Orbital elements C
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.102
Semi-major axis (a) 414.864 Gm (2.773 AU)
Perihelion (q) 372.406 Gm (2.489 AU)
Aphelion (Q) 457.322 Gm (3.057 AU)
Orbital period (P) 1686.787 d (4.62 a)
Mean orbital speed 17.89 km/s
Inclination (i) 6.012°
Longitude of the
ascending node
(Ω)
73.927°
Argument of
perihelion
(ω)
196.765°
Mean anomaly (M) 151.297°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 53.0 km
Mass unknown
Density unknown
Surface gravity unknown
Escape velocity unknown
Rotation period 5.9 h
Spectral class DU
Absolute magnitude 10.5
Albedo 0.040
Mean surface
temperature
unknown

267 Tirza is a fairly sizeable, very dark Main belt asteroid. Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 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 planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major planets (Mercury having a... 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It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on May 27, 1887 in Nice. It was the first asteroid discovery by this profilic asteroid discoverer. Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... City motto: Nicæa civitas. ...


It was named after Tirzah, a woman in the Bible. Jump to: navigation, search The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this...


References

  • The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database
  • Minor Planet Discovery Circumstances
  • Asteroid Lightcurve Data File


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266 Aline is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. ... 268 Adorea is a very large Main belt asteroid. ...

The minor planetsedit
Vulcanoids | Main belt | Groups and families | Near-Earth objects | Jupiter Trojans
Centaurs | Damocloids | Comets | Trans-Neptunians |Kuiper belt | Scattered disc | Oort cloud
For other objects and regions, see: Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons and the Solar system
For a complete listing, see: List of asteroids. For pronunciation, see: Pronunciation of asteroid names.

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