19 Fortuna
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19 Fortuna
Fortuna centered above the Crab Nebula
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Discovery
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| Discovered by | John Russell Hind |
| Discovery date | August 22, 1852 |
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Designations
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| Named after | Fortuna |
| Alternate name(s) | A902 UG |
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Main belt |
| Epoch October 22, 2004 (JD 2453300.5) | |
| Aphelion | 2.831 AU (423.443 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.052 AU (307.028 Gm) |
| Semi-major axis | 2.441 AU (365.235 Gm) |
| Eccentricity | 0.159 |
| Orbital period | 3.81 a (1393.378 d) |
| Average orbital speed | 18.94 km/s |
| Mean anomaly | 268.398° |
| Inclination | 1.573° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 211.379° |
| Argument of perihelion | 182.091° |
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Physical characteristics
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| Dimensions | 225 × 205 × 195 km[2] 225 km[3][4] |
| Mass | 1.27×1019 kg[2] |
| Mean density | 2.70±0.48 g/cm³[2] |
| Equatorial surface gravity | ~0.0629 m/s² |
| Escape velocity | ~0.1190 km/s |
| Rotation period | 0.3101 d (7.4432 h)[1] |
| Albedo | 0.037[1] |
| Temperature | ~180 K |
| Spectral type | G[1] |
| Apparent magnitude | 8.88[5] to 12.95 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 7.13[1] |
| Angular diameter | 0.25" to 0.072" |
19 Fortuna (
/fɔrˈtjuːnə/; Latin: Fortūna) is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It has a composition similar to 1 Ceres: a darkly colored surface that is heavily space-weathered with the composition of primitive organic compounds, including tholins.
Fortuna is 225 km in diameter and has one of the darkest known geometric albedos for an asteroid over 150 km in diameter. Its albedo has been measured at 0.028 and 0.037.[6]
The Hubble Space Telescope observed Fortuna in 1993. It was resolved with an apparent diameter of 0.20 arcseconds (4.5 pixels in the Planetary Camera) and its shape was found to be nearly spherical. Satellites were searched for but none were detected.
Stellar occultations by Fortuna have been observed several times. Fortuna has been studied by radar.[7]
It was discovered by J. R. Hind on August 22, 1852 and named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck.
Fortuna has been perturbed by the 80 km 135 Hertha and was initially estimated by Baer to have a mass of 1.08×1019 kg.[4] A more recent estimate by Baer suggests it has a mass of 1.27×1019 kg.[2]
On December 21, 2012 Fortuna (~200 km) will harmlessly pass within 6.5Gm of asteroid 687 Tinette.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 19 Fortuna". 2008-08-21 last obs. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=19. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ a b c d Jim Baer (2008). "Recent Asteroid Mass Determinations". Personal Website. http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/astmass.txt. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
- ^ Storrs, Alex; Weiss, B.; Zellner, B.; et al. (1998). "Imaging Observations of Asteroids with Hubble Space Telescope". Icarus 137 (2): 260–268. Bibcode 1999Icar..137..260S. doi:10.1006/icar.1999.6047. http://scripts.mit.edu/~paleomag/articles/Storrs_1999_Icarus.pdf. Retrieved 2005-01-15.
- ^ a b Baer, James; Steven R. Chesley (2008). "Astrometric masses of 21 asteroids, and an integrated asteroid ephemeris" (PDF). Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007) 100 (2008): 27–42. Bibcode 2008CeMDA.100...27B. doi:10.1007/s10569-007-9103-8. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h747307j43863228/fulltext.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ "AstDys (19) Fortuna Ephemerides". Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.3.1&n=19&oc=500&y0=1963&m0=10&d0=31&h0=0&mi0=0&y1=1963&m1=10&d1=31&h1=0&mi1=0&ti=1.0&tiu=days. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ^ Storrs, Alex; Dunne; Conan; Mugnier; et al. (2005). "A closer look at main belt asteroids 1: WF/PC images". Icarus 173 (2): 409–416. Bibcode 2005Icar..173..409S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.007. Archived from the original on April 18, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070418034343/http://web.mit.edu/bpweiss/www/StorrsWeiss2005AsteroidsHSTIcarus.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
- ^ "Radar-Detected Asteroids and Comets". NASA/JPL Asteroid Radar Research. http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
- ^ Generated with Solex 10 by Aldo Vitagliano
External links
- Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Ephemeris
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