- 317 Roxane
Minor Planet | name=317 Roxane
discoverer=Auguste Charlois
discovery_date=September 11 ,1891
designations=
category=Main belt
epoch=30 January ,2005 (JD 2453400.5)
semimajor=342.028 Gm (2.286 AU)
perihelion=312.895 Gm (2.092 AU)
aphelion=371.161 Gm (2.481 AU)
eccentricity=0.085
period=1262.685 d (3.46 a)
inclination=1.763°
asc_node=151.46°
arg_peri=186.863°
mean_anomaly=282.211°
speed=19.7 km/s
dimensions=19.0 km
mass="unknown"
density="unknown"
gravity="unknown"
escape_velocity="unknown"
rotation="unknown"
spectral_class=E
abs_mag=10.03
albedo="unknown"
temperature="unknown"317 Roxane is a typical Main belt
asteroid .It was discovered by
Auguste Charlois onSeptember 11 ,1891 inNice , and was at first named Roxana. [Charlois, A.; [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1893AN....132..175C "Benennung von kleinen Planeten"] ,Astronomische Nachrichten , Vol. 132, No. 3155, p. 175]Recently, a team identified 317 Roxane as the closest known spectroscopic match for the
Peña Blanca Spring meteorite that impacted in a swimming pool in Texas in 1946. There is a possibility, therefore, that 317 Roxane is from the parent object as this meteorite. [Fornasier, S. et al.; [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2008.02.015 "Visible and near infrared spectroscopic investigation of E-type asteroids, including 2867 Steins, a target of the Rosetta mission"] ,Icarus , Vol. 196, No. 1, p. 119-134]ee also
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Aubrite
*E-type asteroid Outside links
* http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/meteorite-pages/Pena_Blanca_Spring.htm
* http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM32/AM32_354.pdfReferences
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