Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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529 Preziosa | |
Mpc Name: | (529) Preziosa |
Pronounced: | pronounced as /es/ pronounced as /it/[1] |
Alt Names: | 1904 NT |
Discovered: | 20 March 1904 |
Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
Eccentricity: | 0.096685 |
Semimajor: | 3.0162AU |
Perihelion: | 2.7246AU |
Aphelion: | 3.3078abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Period: | 5.24 yr (1913.3 d) |
Inclination: | 11.024° |
Asc Node: | 65.210° |
Arg Peri: | 333.658° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Observation Arc: | 113.30 yr (41382 d) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Abs Magnitude: | 10.06 |
Rotation: | 27abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Mean Radius: | km |
529 Preziosa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 20 March 1904 from Heidelberg.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that were probably formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
The name is that of the protagonist of one of Miguel de Cervantes's Exemplary Novels. It is possible, since this was a period when Wolf habitually named his comets after operatic heroines, that he specifically had in mind the Preziosa in the eponymous opera by Antonio Smareglia.[2]