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666 Desdemona

Name
Name Desdemona
Designation 1908 DM
Discovery
Discoverer August Kopff
Discovery date July 23, 1908
Discovery site Heidelberg
Orbital elements
Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.239
Semimajor axis (a) 2.592 AU
Perihelion (q) 1.973 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.212 AU
Orbital period (P) 4.174 a
Inclination (i) 7.592°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 215.651°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 173.911°
Mean anomaly (M) 39.077°

666 Desdemona 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 July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 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. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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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She was a sweet, innocent, naive, good-hearted Venetian aristocrat the Moorish soldier of fortune Othello married against her father's wishes and brought to Cyprus, a possession of the city-state of Venice which was defending it from the Turks.
Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her bed in Petaluma, California and murdered, had Desdemona in the sixth house, sextile Juno (a victim), square Uranus (sudden occurrences), sesquiquadrate Mercury and quindecile the Ascendant (personal appearance).
French actress Marie Trintignant, who was murdered by her rock-musician boyfriend, had Desdemona in the seventh house, on the eighth cusp, quintile Chiron, square Pallas, tredecile Juno, parallel the Sun and Midheaven, and contraparallel the Ascendant.
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