426 Hippo is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 25, 1897, in Nice. In the 22nd century, it will come closer than 6,000,000 km (0.04 AU) to the larger asteroids 65 Cybele and 511 Davida.[2]

Orbital diagram of Hippo

References

  1. ^ Bevan & Smith (1875) The Student's Manual of Ancient Geography, p. 584
  2. ^ a b c d e "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 426 Hippo (1897 DH)" (2013-06-21 last obs). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. ^ "AstDyS-2 (426) Hippo Synthetic Proper Orbital Elements". Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
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