571 Dulcinea

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571 Dulcinea
Discovery
Discovered by Paul Götz
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date4 September 1905
Designations
(571) Dulcinea
Pronunciation /dʌlˈsɪniə,dʌlsɪˈnə/ [1]
1905 QZ
Orbital characteristics [2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 110.57 yr (40387 d)
Aphelion 2.9963  AU (448.24  Gm)
Perihelion 1.8224 AU (272.63 Gm)
2.4093 AU (360.43 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.24361
3.74 yr (1366.0 d)
205.094°
0° 15m 48.78s / day
Inclination 5.2282°
3.1916°
27.650°
Physical characteristics
126.3  h (5.26  d)
11.59

    571 Dulcinea is an asteroid orbiting in the inner main belt. [3] It was named after Dulcinea, a character from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote . This is classified as a stony S-type asteroid and it is the second largest member of the Erigone collisional family. [3]

    References

    1. "Dulcinea" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
    2. "571 Dulcinea (1905 QZ)". JPL Small-Body Database . NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
    3. 1 2 Morate, David; et al. (February 2016), "Compositional study of asteroids in the Erigone collisional family using visible spectroscopy at the 10.4 m GTC", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 586: 18, arXiv: 1701.03761 , Bibcode:2016A&A...586A.129M, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527453, A129.