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690 Wratislavia

Name
Name Wratislavia
Designation 1909 HZ
Discovery
Discoverer Joel Hastings Metcalf
Discovery date October 16, 1909
Discovery site Taunton
Orbital elements
Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.185
Semimajor axis (a) 3.141 AU
Perihelion (q) 2.560 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.722 AU
Orbital period (P) 5.567 a
Inclination (i) 11.283°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 253.332°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 115.678°
Mean anomaly (M) 65.091°

690 Wratislavia is a minor planet orbiting Sun. Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Map sources for Taunton at grid reference ST2324 Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. ... 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. ... 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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An Occultation by (690) Wratislavia (808 words)
During the early morning of November 14, 1982, the asteroid (690) Wratislavia was predicted to occult a faint star in the constellation of Taurus for observers somewhere in North America.
The greatest danger in missing an occultation is to observe the wrong star, but I was confident I had the right one as the two images gradually merged about 10 minutes before the predicted occultation time.
Unfortunately, we were only about 10 kilometers apart in the direction of the shadow's motion, so that an accurate determination of the size or shape of the asteroid was not possible.
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