614 Pia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. August Kopff discovered 614 Pia on 11 October 1906 at Heidelberg, Germany.[2][3]
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | August Kopff |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 11 October 1906 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | (614) Pia |
Alternative designations | 1906 VQ |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 109.50 yr (39996 d) |
Aphelion | 2.9930 AU (447.75 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.3942 AU (358.17 Gm) |
Semi-major axis | 2.6936 AU (402.96 Gm) |
Eccentricity | 0.11115 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 4.42 yr (1614.7 d) |
Mean anomaly | 267.21° |
Mean motion | 0° 13m 22.62s / day |
Inclination | 7.0266° |
Longitude of ascending node | 217.291° |
Argument of perihelion | 208.792° |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 12.905±0.75 km |
Synodic rotation period | 4.572 h (0.1905 d) |
Geometric albedo | 0.1056±0.013 |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.0 |
Its name may have been inspired by the Pia Observatory at Trieste, Italy, which German astronomer Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902) named for his wife, Pia.[2] Pia is Italian for "pious."
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