98 Ianthe
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters |
| Discovery date | April 18, 1868 |
| Designations | |
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Named after
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Ianthe |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5) | |
| Aphelion | 477.729 Gm (3.193 AU) |
| Perihelion | 325.503 Gm (2.176 AU) |
| 401.616 Gm (2.685 AU) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.190 |
| 1606.670 d (4.40 a) | |
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Average orbital speed
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18.01 km/s |
| 198.904° | |
| Inclination | 15.613° |
| 354.137° | |
| 158.566° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 106.16 ± 3.76[1] km |
| Mass | (8.93 ± 1.99) × 1017[1] kg |
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Mean density
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1.42 ± 0.35[1] g/cm3 |
| 0.0292 m/s² | |
| 0.0552 km/s | |
| 16.479[2] h | |
| Albedo | 0.047 [3] |
| Temperature | ~170 K |
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Spectral type
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C |
| 8.84 | |
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98 Ianthe (/aɪˈænθiː/ eye-AN-thee) is a large main-belt asteroid, named for three figures in Greek mythology. It is very dark and is composed of carbonates. It was one of the numerous (for his time—the 19th century) discoveries by C. H. F. Peters, who found it on April 18, 1868, from Clinton, New York.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2007 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico were used to create a light curve plot. This showed a synodic rotation period of 16.479 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.27 ± 0.02 magnitude during each cycle.[2]
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