60 Echo
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| Orbital characteristics 1 | |
|---|---|
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Semimajor axis | 2.394 AU |
| Perihelion distance | 1.957 AU |
| Aphelion distance | 2.830 AU |
| Orbital period | 3.70 years |
| Inclination | 3.60° |
| Eccentricity | 0.182 |
| Physical characteristics 1 | |
| Diameter | 60.2 km |
| Rotation period 3 | 25.206 hours |
| Spectral class | S |
| Abs magnitude | 8.21 |
| Albedo 4 | 0.254 |
| History 2 | |
| Discoverer | J Ferguson 1860 |
60 Echo is a quite large Main belt asteroid It is an S-type asteroid.
Echo was discovered by James Ferguson on September 14, 1860 It was his third and final asteroid discovery It is named after Echo a nymph in Greek mythology.
[edit] Aspects
| Stationary, retrograde |
Opposition | Distance to Earth (AU) |
Maximum brightness (mag) |
Stationary, prograde |
Conjunction to Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2005 | 13 November 2005 | 1.75518 | 9.9 | 21 December 2005 | 28 January 2006 |
| 4 October 2006 | 7 April 2007 | 0.98322 | 11.7 | 28 May 2007 | 19 July 2007 |
| 11 January 2008 | 10 July 2008 | 1.70297 | 11.4 | 30 August 2008 | 17 October 2008 |
| 5 May 2009 | 13 January 2010 | 1.57470 | 10.2 | 24 February 2010 | 3 April 2010 |
| 9 November 2010 | 2 May 2011 | 1.09207 | 12.0 | 25 June 2011 | 17 August 2011 |
| 5 February 2012 | 23 August 2012 | 1.80844 | 10.6 | 6 October 2012 | 20 November 2012 |
| 14 July 2013 | 25 February 2014 | 1.29910 | 10.9 | 12 April 2014 | 28 May 2014 |
| 8 December 2014 | 29 May 2015 | 1.38244 | 11.9 | 22 July 2015 | 11 September 2015 |
| 6 March 2016 | 21 October 2016 | 1.79118 | 10.1 | 28 November 2016 | 7 January 2017 |
| 17 September 2017 | 28 March 2018 | 1.03024 | 11.6 | 17 May 2018 | 7 July 2018 |
| 2 January 2019 | 28 June 2019 | 1.63648 | 11.6 | 19 August 2019 | 8 October 2019 |
| 16 April 2020 | 24 December 2020 | 1.65216 | 10.0 | 2 February 2021 | 11 March 2021 |
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| Previous minor planet | 60 Echo | Next minor planet |
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| For other objects and regions, see: asteroid groups and families, binary asteroids, asteroid moons and the Solar system For a complete listing, see: List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names. |
