Minorplanet: | yes |
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395 Delia | |
Discovered: | 30 November 1894 |
Mpc Name: | (395) Delia |
Alt Names: | 1894 BK |
Epoch: | January 21, 2022 (JD 2459600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.085 |
Inclination: | 3.35° |
Asc Node: | 259.3° |
Arg Peri: | 11.1° |
Mean Anomaly: | 277.5° |
Rotation: | 19.681h |
Spectral Type: | C (Tholen) |
Abs Magnitude: | 10.38 |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
395 Delia is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 30 November 1894 in Nice. "Delia" is an epithet for the ancient Greco-Roman Moon goddess Artemis, for her birthplace at Delos. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with an orbital eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.085 and a period of . The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 3.35° to the plane of the ecliptic.
This is a dark, carbonaceous body with a low albedo of 0.03 and is classified as a C-type asteroid in the Tholen taxonomy. It has an estimated cross-section of 44.2 km/s and is spinning with a rotation period of 19.7 hours.