Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 19 January 1903 |
Designations | |
(502) Sigune | |
Pronunciation | German: [ˈziːɡuːnə] |
1903 LC | |
Orbital characteristics [1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 112.94 yr (41251 d) |
Aphelion | 2.8101 AU (420.38 Gm) |
Perihelion | 1.9546 AU (292.40 Gm) |
2.3824 AU (356.40 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.17955 |
3.68 yr (1343.1 d) | |
271.391° | |
0° 16m 4.908s / day | |
Inclination | 25.030° |
133.001° | |
19.203° | |
Earth MOID | 0.975533 AU (145.9377 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.24872 AU (336.404 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.390 |
Physical characteristics | |
7.99±1 km | |
10.922 h (0.4551 d) | |
0.3405±0.105 | |
10.77 | |
502 Sigune is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting primarily in the asteroid belt. Like 501 Urhixidur and 500 Selinur, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer . [2]
261 Prymno is a somewhat large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a B-type asteroid and probably has a primitive composition not unlike common C-type carbonaceous asteroids.
267 Tirza is a fairly sizeable, very dark Main belt asteroid.
501 Urhixidur is a relatively large main belt asteroid. It was discovered on 18 January 1903, by astronomer Max Wolf (1863–1932), at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. Like 500 Selinur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.
479 Caprera is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
486 Cremona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
494 Virtus is an 86 km minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on October 7, 1902. Its provisional name was 1902 JV.
500 Selinur is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Like 501 Urhixidur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.
507 Laodica is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
521 Brixia is a relatively large minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting mostly in the asteroid belt that was discovered by American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan on January 10, 1904. The name derives from Brixia, the ancient name of the Italian city of Brescia.
586 Thekla is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Saint Thecla of the first century. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1906 TC.
616 Elly is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Maria family of asteroids.
625 Xenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by August Kopff in Heidelberg, Germany, on 11 February 1907. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1907 XN.
633 Zelima is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt with a magnitude of 10.7. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1907 ZM.
635 Vundtia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun - though this claim has been disputed.
643 Scheherezade is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the fictional storyteller Sheherazad.
663 Gerlinde is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.
768 Struveana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The asteroid was named jointly in honor of Baltic German astronomers Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve.
1193 Africa, provisional designation 1931 HB, is a stony Eunomian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by South African astronomer Cyril Jackson at Johannesburg Observatory on 24 April 1931. The asteroid was named for the African continent.
6144 Kondojiro (1994 EQ3) is an asteroid discovered on 14 March 1994 by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. It is named after Jiro Kondo, a Japanese Egyptologist and professor of archaeology at Waseda University.