454 Mathesis is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg (024) |
| Discovery date | 28 March 1900 |
| Designations | |
| (454) Mathesis | |
| Pronunciation | /məˈθiːsɪs/[1] |
Named after | mathematics |
| 1900 FC | |
| main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 116.05 yr (42387 d) |
| Aphelion | 2.9158 AU (436.20 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.3409 AU (350.19 Gm) |
| 2.6284 AU (393.20 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.10937 |
| 4.26 yr (1556.4 d) | |
| 98.12293° | |
| 0° 13m 52.679s / day | |
| Inclination | 6.29209869841666° |
| 32.29958° | |
| 177.3387° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 81.57±3.2 km |
| 8.378 h (0.3491 d) | |
| 0.0555±0.005 | |
| 9.20 | |
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Altimira Observatory in 2004 gave a light curve with a period of 8.37784 ± 0.00003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. This differs from periods of 7.075 hours reported in 1994 and 7.745 hours in 1998.[3]
References
edit- ^ "mathesis". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "454 Mathesis", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Buchheim, Robert K. (June 2006), "Photometry of asteroids 133 Cyrene, 454 Mathesis, 477 Italia, and 2264 Sabrina", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 29–30, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...29B.
External links
edit- 454 Mathesis at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 454 Mathesis at the JPL Small-Body Database
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