Carmen (minor planet designation: 558 Carmen) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. As with a number of asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, it is named after a female character in opera, in this case the title character of Bizet's Carmen. This is classified as an M-type asteroid that spans a girth of approximately 59 km. The near infrared spectrum of this object is described as featureless. Some evidence for iron-poor orthopyroxenes on the surface has been reported.[2]
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Discovered by | M. F. Wolf |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 9 February 1905 |
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MPC designation | (558) Carmen |
Alternative designations | 1905 QB |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 111.15 yr (40,597 d) |
Aphelion | 3.0333 AU (453.78 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.7817 AU (416.14 Gm) |
Semi-major axis | 2.9075 AU (434.96 Gm) |
Eccentricity | 0.043262 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 4.96 yr (1,810.8 d) |
Mean anomaly | 216.857° |
Mean motion | 0° 11m 55.716s / day |
Inclination | 8.3757° |
Longitude of ascending node | 143.728° |
Argument of perihelion | 311.756° |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 29.655±0.9 km |
Synodic rotation period | 11.387 h (0.4745 d) |
Geometric albedo | 0.1161±0.007 |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 9.09 |
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