Astronomy:892 Seeligeria

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892 Seeligeria
Discovery
Discovered byM. F. Wolf
Discovery siteHeidelberg Obs.
Discovery date31 May 1918
Designations
(892) Seeligeria
1918 DR
Minor planet categorymain-belt · (outer)
Alauda [1]
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc97.87 yr (35747 days)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}3.5632 astronomical unit|AU (533.05 Gm)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}2.8970 AU (433.39 Gm)
3.2301 AU (483.22 Gm)
Eccentricity0.10312
Orbital period5.81 yr (2120.4 d)
Mean anomaly83.4390°
Mean motion0° 10m 11.208s / day
Inclination21.335°
Longitude of ascending node175.926°
287.377°
Earth MOID1.98994 AU (297.691 Gm)
Jupiter MOID1.66162 AU (248.575 Gm)
TJupiter3.071
Physical characteristics
Mean radius38.01±0.8 km
Rotation period15.78 h,[3] 41.40 h (1.725 d)[2]
Geometric albedo0.0485±0.002
Absolute magnitude (H)9.7


892 Seeligeria is dark Alauda asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on May 31, 1918 in Heidelberg and assigned a preliminary designation of 1918 DR. It was named after German astronomer Hugo Hans von Seeliger.

Photometric observations at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana, during 2007 were used to build a light curve for 892 Seeligeria. The asteroid displayed a rotation period of 15.78 ± 0.04 hours and a brightness variation of 0.35 ± 0.07 in magnitude.[3]

Seeligeria is a member of the Alauda family (902),[1] a large family of typically bright carbonaceous asteroids and named after its parent body, 702 Alauda.[4]:23

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