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654 Zelinda

Name
Name Zelinda
Designation 1908 BM
Discovery
Discoverer August Kopff
Discovery date January 4, 1908
Discovery site Heidelberg
Orbital elements
Epoch October 10, 1999 (JDCT 2451461.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.232
Semimajor axis (a) 2.297 AU
Perihelion (q) 1.765 AU
Aphelion (Q) 2.829 AU
Orbital period (P) 3.481 a
Inclination (i) 18.118°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 278.612°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 214.078°
Mean anomaly (M) 113.367°

654 Zelinda is a minor planet orbiting Sun. August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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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Asteroid_News.htm (4929 words)
The "C" class Phocaea group asteroid 654 Zelinda occulted a m = 11.5 star on July 29, 2003.
654 Zelinda was discovered by A. Knopf in Heidelberg, Germany on January 4, 1908.
It was named after the niece of astronomer Camille Flammarion and daughter of his sister Berthe.
IOTA Document (7036 words)
nugent 286 09/17/01 (225) tyc11191857 11.5 pensacola, fl richard nugent 1 0 0 henrietta 09/24/01 (253) ucac2 30621282 12.5 alpine, texas james walker 0 1 0 mathilde 287 09/28/01 (654) gsc24391095 11.1 hauteprovobs,france william thuillot 1 0 0 zelinda 288 10/05/01 (909) ulla tyc 50610070 9.0 exmouth, w austr.
hashimoto 329 03/27/02 (654) tyc 01682620 9.96 colorado, kansas, r.
bros 07/29/03 (654) zelinda tyc 62853426 11.5 stillwater, ok p.
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