70 Panopaea

Minor Planet
name=70 Panopaea
discoverer=H. Goldschmidt
discovery_date=May 5, 1861
designations=
category=Main belt (Eunomia family)
epoch=December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
semimajor=391.394 Gm (2.616 AU)
perihelion=320.456 Gm (2.142 AU)
aphelion=462.332 Gm (3.090 AU)
eccentricity=0.181
period=1545.723 d (4.23 a)
inclination=11.585°
asc_node=47.805°
arg_peri=255.879°
mean_anomaly=101.278°
speed=18.26 km/s
dimensions=122.2 km
mass=1.9e|18 kg
density=? g/cm³
gravity=0.0342 m/s²
escape_velocity=0.0646 km/s
rotation=? d
spectral_class=C
abs_mag=8.11
albedo=0.068 [ [http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html Asteroid Data Sets ] ]
temperature=~172 K

70 Panopaea "(pan'-ə-pee'-ə," IPAEng|ˈpænəˈpiːə) is a large main belt asteroid. It orbits close to the Eunomia asteroid family. However, it is a dark, primitive carbonaceous C-type asteroid and not related to the parent body of the Eunomia family which consists of S-type asteroids. Panopaea was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on May 5, 1861. It was his fourteenth and last asteroid discovery. It is named after Panopea, a nymph in Greek mythology.

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