- 363 Padua
Minor Planet | name=363 Padua
discoverer=Auguste Charlois
discovery_date=March 17 ,1893
designations=1893 S
category=Main belt (Lydia)
epoch=30 January ,2005 (JD 2453400.5)
semimajor=410.982 Gm (2.747 AU)
perihelion=380.897 Gm (2.546 AU)
aphelion=441.068 Gm (2.948 AU)
eccentricity=0.073
period=1663.172 d (4.55 a)
inclination=5.951°
asc_node=64.995°
arg_peri=294.64°
mean_anomaly=5.679°
speed=17.97 km/s
dimensions=35 - 75 km
mass="unknown"
density="unknown"
gravity="unknown"
escape_velocity="unknown"
rotation="unknown"
spectral_class="unknown"
abs_mag=9.01
albedo="unknown"
temperature="unknown"363 Padua a Main belt
asteroid . [ [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top JPL Small-Body Database Browser ] ]It was discovered by
Auguste Charlois onMarch 17 ,1893 inNice . It was named after the city of Padova, which is located near Venice, Italy. [ Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN-10: 3540002383.]Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999. [Bus, S., Binzel, R. P. Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II. EAR-A-I0028-4-SBN0001/SMASSII-V1.0. NASA Planetary Data System, 2003.]Lightcurve data has also been recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill Observatory, which has been designated as an official observatory by the
Minor Planet Center . [ [http://www.antelopehillsobservatory.org/index_files/Page334.htm Lightcurve Results ] ]References
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