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Main-belt asteroid

500 Selinur
Discovery
Discovered by	Max Wolf
Discovery site	Heidelberg
Discovery date	16 January 1903
Designations
MPC designation	(500) Selinur
Pronunciation	German: [ˈzeːliːnʊɐ̯]
Alternative designations	1903 LA
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	112.90 yr (41238 d)
Aphelion	2.9936 AU (447.84 Gm)
Perihelion	2.2313 AU (333.80 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.6124 AU (390.81 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.14588
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.22 yr (1542.3 d)
Mean anomaly	43.1528°
Mean motion	0° 14 0.312 / day
Inclination	9.7716°
Longitude of ascending node	289.934°
Argument of perihelion	74.510°
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	21.60±0.55 km
Synodic rotation period	8.0111 h (0.33380 d)
Geometric albedo	0.1804±0.009
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.2

500 Selinur is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Like 501 Urhixidur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.

References

"500 Selinur (1903 LA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-662-02804-9.

External links

Lightcurve plot of 500 Selinur, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
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
500 Selinur at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
500 Selinur at the JPL Small-Body Database
- Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit viewer · Orbit parameters · Physical parameters

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