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508 Princetonia

Name
Name Princetonia
Designation 1903 LQ
Discovery
Discoverer Raymond Smith Dugan
Discovery date April 20, 1903
Discovery site Heidelberg
Orbital elements
Epoch January 11, 2001 (JDCT 2451920.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.018
Semimajor axis (a) 3.159 AU
Perihelion (q) 3.101 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.216 AU
Orbital period (P) 5.614 a
Inclination (i) 13.362°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 44.755°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 181.108°
Mean anomaly (M) 122.969°

508 Princetonia is a minor planet orbiting Sun. Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1899). ... Jump to: navigation, search April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Jump to: navigation, search Map of Germany showing Heidelberg Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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 . ... In astrodynamics, under standard assumptions any orbit must be of conic section shape. ... In geometry, the semi-major axis (also semimajor axis) a applies to ellipses and hyperbolas. ... 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. ... 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. ... The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... A Julian year is the length of an average year in the Julian calendar, 365. ... 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. ... 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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... Jump to: navigation, search The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. ...



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Princetonia Occultation of 2004 June 6 UT - More Lessons Learned (759 words)
TYC 0290- 00392-1 by the 142-km asteroid (508) Princetonia that I know of was by Mark Watson, a member of the Columbus Astronomical Society, who visually timed a 7-second occultation with a 10-inch telescope at Delaware, Ohio; that was near the western edge of the path.
Roger Venable observed near Augusta, GA just inside the eastern edge of the predicted path, and had no occultation, so the path apparently shifted a little to the west.
Obviously, I should not have left that station when I returned to get the case - should have known that there would just not be enough time to get things going at the 2nd station.
Results of Mid-Atlantic Occultations and Expeditions (3315 words)
June 6th Occultation by (508) Princetonia Observed from Ohio - new 2004 June 16
star by the relatively large asteroid Princetonia using a 10-inch telescope at Delaware, Ohio, near the predicted western edge of the path.
Jared Zitwer and I drove to the small rural crossroads of Pherson, Ohio, about 25 miles south of Columbus and a little west, in the western side of the path where they just got into clear sky out of extensive cloud cover farther east.
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