740 Cantabia
Cantabia is a contraction of Cantabrigia, Latin for Cambridge, named in honor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Joel Hastings Metcalf |
| Discovery site | Winchester, Massachusetts |
| Discovery date | 10 February 1913 |
| Designations | |
| (740) Cantabia | |
| Pronunciation | /kænˈteɪbiə/[1] |
| 1913 QS | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 103.10 yr (37659 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.3892 AU (507.02 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.7145 AU (406.08 Gm) |
| 3.0519 AU (456.56 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.11053 |
| 5.33 yr (1947.4 d) | |
| 133.938° | |
| 0° 11m 5.532s / day | |
| Inclination | 10.846° |
| 116.099° | |
| 47.844° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 45.45±0.85 km |
| 64.453 h (2.6855 d) | |
| 0.0552±0.002 | |
| 9.1 | |
740 Cantabia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
See also
- List of minor planets/701–800
- Meanings of minor planet names: 501–1000
References
- Per 'Cantabria' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- "740 Cantabia (1913 QS)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
External links
- Lightcurve plot of 740 Cantabia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 740 Cantabia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 740 Cantabia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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