![]() VLT image of Bamberga | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
Discovery date | 25 February 1892 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | (324) Bamberga |
Pronunciation | /bæmˈbɜːrɡə/ |
Named after | Bamberg |
Minor planet category | Main belt |
Adjectives | Bambergian /bæmˈbɜːrdʒiən, -ɡiən/ |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 124.08 yr (45321 d) |
Aphelion | 3.59442 AU (537.718 Gm) |
Perihelion | 1.77023 AU (264.823 Gm) |
Semi-major axis | 2.68232 AU (401.269 Gm) |
Eccentricity | 0.34004 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 4.39 yr (1604.6 d) |
Mean anomaly | 225.419° |
Mean motion | 0° 13m 27.682s / day |
Inclination | 11.1011° |
Longitude of ascending node | 327.883° |
Argument of perihelion | 44.2409° |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | c/a = 0.96±0.05[2] |
Mean diameter | 227±3 km[2] 234.67 ± 7.80 km[3] 229.4 ± 7.4 km (IRAS)[4] |
Mass | (10.2±0.9)×1018 kg[2] 11×1018 kg[5] (10.3±1.0)×1018 kg[3] |
Mean density | 1.67±0.16 g/cm3[2] 1.52±0.20 g/cm3[3] |
Synodic rotation period | 1.226 d[6] 29.43 h (1.226 d)[1] |
Geometric albedo | 0.060 (calculated)[2] 0.0628±0.004[4] |
Spectral type | C-type asteroid[7] |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 6.82[1][4] |
Bamberga (minor planet designation: 324 Bamberga) is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 25 February 1892 in Vienna. It is one of the top-20 largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. Apart from the near-Earth asteroid Eros, it was the last asteroid which is ever easily visible with binoculars to be discovered.
Overall Bamberga is the tenth-brightest main-belt asteroid after, in order, Vesta, Pallas, Ceres, Iris, Hebe, Juno, Melpomene, Eunomia and Flora. Its high eccentricity (for comparison 36% higher than that of Pluto), though, means that at most oppositions other asteroids reach higher magnitudes.
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