619 Triberga is a main belt asteroid discovered on 22 October 1906 by August Kopff at Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory.[1] Since it has an orbit that repeats itself almost exactly every four years with respect to the position of the Sun and Earth, it has been suggested as a way to calculate the mass of the Moon.[8] Triberga was named for the German town of Triberg.[9]
Since it has an absolute magnitude of 9.9, it is roughly 43 km in diameter. It has an opposition apparent magnitude of 13.5.
References
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- ^ a b c "619 Triberga (1906 WC)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "(619) Triberga". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
- ^ Oliver; Shipley, Heath; Ditteon, Richard; et al. (2008). "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2008 March". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 35 (4): 149–150. Bibcode:2008MPBu...35..149O.
- ^ Pray (2006). "Lightcurve analysis of asteroids 326, 329, 426, 619, 1829, 1967, 2453, 10518 and 42267". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 33 (1): 4–5. Bibcode:2006MPBu...33....4P.
- ^ Neese (2005). "Asteroid Taxonomy". EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V5.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- ^ Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- ^ Brouwer, Dirk & Ashbrook, Joseph (1951). "The minor planet 619 Triberga and the mass of the moon". The Astronomical Journal. 56 (3): 57–58. Bibcode:1951AJ.....56...57B. doi:10.1086/106513.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (fifth ed.). Germany: Springer. p. 62. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
External links
- 619 Triberga at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 619 Triberga at the JPL Small-Body Database
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