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Encyclopedia > 432 Pythia
432 Pythia
Discovery A
Discoverer Auguste Charlois
Discovery date December 18, 1897
Alternate
designations
1897 DO B
Category Main belt
Orbital elements C
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.147
Semi-major axis (a) 354.462 Gm (2.369 AU)
Perihelion (q) 302.527 Gm (2.022 AU)
Aphelion (Q) 406.398 Gm (2.717 AU)
Orbital period (P) 1332.161 d (3.65 a)
Mean orbital speed 19.35 km/s
Inclination (i) 12.13°
Longitude of the
ascending node
(Ω)
88.887°
Argument of
perihelion
(ω)
174.024°
Mean anomaly (M) 308.921°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 47.0 km
Mass unknown
Density unknown
Surface gravity unknown
Escape velocity unknown
Rotation period unknown
Spectral class unknown
Absolute magnitude 8.84
Albedo unknown
Mean surface
temperature
unknown

432 Pythia is a typical Main belt asteroid. Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see 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 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, 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. ... Degree (angle) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 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. ... In physics, for a given gravitational field and a given position, the escape velocity is the minimum speed an object without propulsion, at that position, needs to have to move away indefinitely from the source of the field, as opposed to falling back or staying in an orbit within a... In astronomy, a rotation period is the time an astronomical object takes to complete one revolution around its rotation axis. ... 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 Auguste Charlois on December 18, 1897 in Nice. Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... City motto: Nicæa civitas. ...



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431 Nephele is a large Main belt asteroid. ... The asteroid 433 Eros was named after the Greek god of love Eros. ...

The minor planets
Vulcanoids | Main belt | Groups and families | Near-Earth objects | Jupiter Trojans
Centaurs | Trans-Neptunians | Damocloids | Comets | Kuiper belt | 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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RASNZ Occultation Section - Pythia Occultation Update (656 words)
OCCULTATION BY (432) PYTHIA - 2005 OCT 03
On 2005 Oct 03 UT, the 47 km diameter asteroid (432) Pythia will occult a 10.1 mag star in the constellation Ophiuchus for observers along a path across north-western Western Australia and central Northern Territory.
In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star will drop by 3.3 mag to 13.3 mag (the magnitude of the asteroid) for at most 1.5 seconds.
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