402 Chloë

Main-belt asteroid

402 Chloë (prov. designation: A895 FB or 1895 BW) is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1895 from Nice.[2] This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.56 AU with a period of 4.09 years and an eccentricity of 0.11. The orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 11.8° to the plane of the ecliptic.[2]

This asteroid spans a girth of approximately 54 km.[2] It is classified as a K-type asteroid and is a Barbarian.[3] Analysis of the asteroid light curve, based on photometric data collected during 2009, show a rotation period of 10.664±0.001 h with a brightness variation of 0.30±0.01 in magnitude.[4]

References

  1. ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  2. ^ a b c d "402 Chloe (1895 BW)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. ^ Gil-Hutton, R.; et al. (September 2014), "Polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids. IV. New results from the first epoch of the CASLEO survey", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 569: 6, Bibcode:2014A&A...569A.122G, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424238, hdl:11336/8937, A122.
  4. ^ Warner, Brian D. (July 2009), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory: 2008 December - 2009 March", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, 36 (3): 109–116, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36..109W.
  • Lightcurve plot of 402 Chloe, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
  • Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
  • 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
  • 402 Chloë at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
    • Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
  • 402 Chloë at the JPL Small-Body Database Edit this at Wikidata
    • Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
  • JPL SBDB
  • MPC


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