160 Una
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Discovery A | |
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Discoverer | C. H. F. Peters |
Discovery date | February 20, 1876 |
Alternate designations B |
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Category | Main belt |
Orbital elements C | |
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Eccentricity (e) | 0.067 |
Semi-major axis (a) | 408.058 Gm (2.728 AU) |
Perihelion (q) | 380.561 Gm (2.544 AU) |
Aphelion (Q) | 435.556 Gm (2.912 AU) |
Orbital period (P) | 1645.485 d (4.51 a) |
Mean orbital speed | 18.01 km/s |
Inclination (i) | 3.824° |
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) |
8.856° |
Argument of perihelion (ω) |
49.974° |
Mean anomaly (M) | 308.565° |
Physical characteristics D | |
Dimensions | 81.2 km |
Mass | 5.6×1017 kg |
Density | 2.0? g/cm³ |
Surface gravity | 0.0227 m/s² |
Escape velocity | 0.0429 km/s |
Rotation period | 0.234 d (5.61 h) 1 |
Spectral class | C 2 |
Absolute magnitude | 9.08 |
Albedo (geometric) | 0.063 3 |
Mean surface temperature |
~170 K |
160 Una is a fairly large and dark, primitive Main belt asteroid.
It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 20, 1876 in Clinton, New York. It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).
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