429 Lotis

429 Lotis
Discovery
Discovered by Auguste Charlois
Discovery date 23 November 1897
Designations
MPC designation (429) Lotis
1897 DL
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 114.49 yr (41818 d)
Aphelion 2.9274 AU (437.93 Gm)
Perihelion 2.2872 AU (342.16 Gm)
2.6073 AU (390.05 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.12278
4.21 yr (1537.7 d)
18.44 km/s
89.1827°
0° 14m 2.796s / day
Inclination 9.5335°
219.980°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 69.62±1.5 km
13.577 h (0.5657 d)
0.0430±0.002
C?
9.82

    429 Lotis is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a probable C-type asteroid and is likely composed of primitive carbonaceous materials. This object was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 23 November 1897 in Nice.

    In 2002, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.31 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 70 ± 10 km.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ "429 Lotis (1897 DL)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
    2. ↑ Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus, 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 2015-04-14.


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