1460 Haltia information

1460 Haltia
Discovery
Discovered by	Y. Väisälä
Discovery site	Turku Obs.
Discovery date	24 November 1937
Designations
MPC designation	(1460) Haltia
Named after	Halti/Haltia; (highest Finnish peak)
Alternative designations	1937 WC
Minor planet category	main-belt · (middle); background
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	79.61 yr (29,077 days)
Aphelion	3.0202 AU
Perihelion	2.0643 AU
Semi-major axis	2.5422 AU
Eccentricity	0.1880
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.05 yr (1,481 days)
Mean anomaly	245.72°
Mean motion	0° 14m 35.52s / day
Inclination	6.6858°
Longitude of ascending node	74.185°
Argument of perihelion	358.22°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	6.57±1.19 km; 7.43±0.61 km; 8.440±0.225 km; 8.97 km (calculated)
Synodic rotation period	3.58682±0.00006 h; 3.588±0.005 h; 3.59 h
Geometric albedo	0.186±0.032; 0.20 (assumed); 0.226±0.030; 0.36±0.15
Spectral type	S (assumed)
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.60 · 12.7 · 12.78±0.14 · 13.10

1460 Haltia, provisional designation 1937 WC, is a stony background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 November 1937, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Turku, Finland.^[10] The asteroid was named after Halti (Haltia), Finland's highest peak on the border to Norway.^[2]

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