39.22 ± 2.4 km (24.37 ± 1.49 mi) Mean diameter [5]
Mean radius
19.61±1.2 km
Synodic rotation period
12.4886±0.0007 h[6]
12.4886 h (0.52036 d) [3]
Geometric albedo
0.2444±0.034[3][5]
Absolute magnitude (H)
9.18[7]
9.2 [3]
653 Berenike is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 27 November 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf at Taunton, Massachusetts.[1] It is named after Berenice II of Egypt, after whom the constellation Coma Berenices is also named. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1907 BK.
Berenike is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.[8]
^ ab"Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)–(5000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
^'Berenice' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^"(653) Berenike". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
^ abTedesco; et al. (2004). "Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey (SIMPS)". IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
^Galád; et al. (2008). "A Collection of Lightcurves from Modra: 2007 December- 2008 June". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 35 (4): 144–146. Bibcode:2008MPBu...35..144G.
^Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
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