Jessonda (minor planet designation: 549 Jessonda) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. According to the Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances, it is "named presumably after the character in the opera of the same name by the German composer, conductor and violinist Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859), one of the leading composers in the early romantic period.'[2] (Around 1904 Max Wolf named numerous asteroids he had discovered after female characters in opera.)
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 15 November 1904 |
| Designations | |
| (549) Jessonda | |
| Pronunciation | German: [jɛsɔndaː] |
| 1904 PK | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 111.42 yr (40695 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.3765 AU (505.12 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9899 AU (297.68 Gm) |
| 2.6832 AU (401.40 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.25839 |
| 4.40 yr (1605.3 d) | |
| 129.346° | |
| 0° 13m 27.3s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.9605° |
| 291.421° | |
| 158.166° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 9.405±0.35 km |
| 2.962 h (0.1234 d) | |
| 0.1971±0.015 | |
| 11.01 | |
References edit
- ^ "549 Jessonda (1904 PK)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Accessed on line[permanent dead link]
External links edit
- Lightcurve plot of 549 Jessonda, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2006)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 549 Jessonda at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 549 Jessonda at the JPL Small-Body Database
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