696 Leonora

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696 Leonora
Discovery
Discovered by Joel Hastings Metcalf
Discovery site Taunton, Massachusetts
Discovery date10 January 1910
Designations
(696) Leonora
1910 JJ
main-belt  ·(outer)
Meliboea [1]
Orbital characteristics [2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 95.46 yr (34866 d)
Aphelion 3.9660  AU (593.31  Gm)
Perihelion 2.3753 AU (355.34 Gm)
3.1707 AU (474.33 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.25085
5.65 yr (2062.2 d)
307.652°
0° 10m 28.452s / day
Inclination 13.036°
299.519°
104.093°
Physical characteristics
37.88±1 km
26.8964  h (1.12068  d)
0.0773±0.004
9.4

    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. [3]

    References

    1. "Asteroid 696 Leonora – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0". Small Bodies Data Ferret. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
    2. "696 Leonora (1910 JJ)". JPL Small-Body Database . NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 5 May 2016.
    3. Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 106. ISBN   9783662066157.