102 Miriam

Main-belt asteroid February 2012 yes #D6D6D6 102 Miriam Орбита астероида 102.png Orbital diagram http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) December 31, 2008 IAU: Minor Planet Center https://web.archive.org/web/20090202185140/http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html February 2, 2009 Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters Litchfield Observatory 22 August 1868 (102) Miriam A868 QA, 1944 FC1972 PC ' m ɪ r i ə mMiriam Miriam main belthttps://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=102 102 Miriam JPL Small-Body Database NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 12 May 2016 https://newton.spacedys.com/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=102 (102) Miriam December 31, 2008 AstDyS University of Pisa Italy 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) 3.33419 AU Gm on on 1.98782 AU Gm on 2.66101 AU Gm on 0.252981 4.34 yr (1585.5 d) 5.17832° 210.856° 23.9115° 147.247° 96 × 62 km 82.595 0.400 km83.00 1.9 km (9.95 ± 4.64/2.6)17 kg 3.409 ± 1.589/0.89 g/cm3Assuming a diameter of 82.29 ± 0.88 km. 23.613 h d on on 0.051 0.0060.0507 0.002 P (Tholen classification) C (SMASSII classification) 9.519.26 0.227057 ms / day 145.65 yr (53198 d) 0 0.98566 AU Gm on 2.13185 AU Gm on 3.333 102 Miriam is a moderately large, very dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 22, 1868, from the Litchfield Observatory. Peters named the asteroid after Miriam, the sister of Moses in the Old Testament. This caused some controversy, because at the time, asteroids were expected to be named after mythological figures, and devout Christians and Jews would not regard Biblical figures as such. According to fellow astronomer Edward S. Holden, Peters deliberately chose a name from the Bible so as to annoy an overly pious theology professor of his acquaintance.Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names https://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA20 2003 Springer Science & Business Media 978-3-540-00238-3 25 Initially classified as a D-type asteroid, it was later classed as C-type based upon a broad absorption feature below 4,000 Å, most likely due to phyllosilicates on the surface. An occultation of the star HIP 37136 by 102 Miriam on February 15, 2000 was observed from multiple stations, with the chords yielding an estimated elliptical cross-section of 96 × 62 km. Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2007 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, were used to create a light curve plot. This showed a rotation period of 23.613 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.12 ± 0.02 magnitude. The curve shows three maxima and minima during each cycle. Notes References 30em Dunham D. W. Goffin E. Manek J. Federspiel M. Stone R. Owen W. Asteroidal occultation results multiply helped by Hipparcos 1 The Minor Planet Bulletin 73 3 662 September 2002 2002MmSAI..73..662D . http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html Tedesco Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey (SIMPS) December 31, 2008 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 Planetary Data System 2004 https://archive.today/20070119015129/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html January 19, 2007 dead etal mdy http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html Neese Asteroid Taxonomy December 27, 2008 EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V5.0 Planetary Data System 2005 https://archive.today/20070310220044/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html March 10, 2007 dead mdy http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html Tholen Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes December 31, 2008 EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0. Planetary Data System 2007 https://archive.today/20080611192847/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html June 11, 2008 dead mdy Frederick Pilcher Period Determination for 84 Klio, 98 Ianthe, 102 Miriam 112 Iphigenia, 131 Vala, and 650 Amalasuntha The Minor Planet Bulletin 35 2 71–72 June 2008 2008MPBu...35...71P . A spectroscopic survey of D-type asteroids 1 Fitzsimmons A. Dahlgren M. Lagerkvist C.-I. Magnusson P. Williams I. P. Astronomy and Astrophysics 282 2 634–642 February 1994 1994A&A...282..634F . Fienga A. Avdellidou C. Hanuš J. February 2020 Asteroid masses obtained with INPOP planetary ephemerides https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/492/1/589/5658701 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492 1 10.1093/mnras/stz3407 free subscription External links 102 101 Helena 102 103 Hera 000102 000102 000102 Category:Discoveries by Christian Peters Category:Named minor planets 18680822