Wednesday 31 October 2018

(804) Hispania, updating bookmarks, panels or web pages where data is presented in an orderly way

(804) Hispania is a main belt asteroid (outer zone I) discovered in March of 1915. There is a prediscovery image back to September of 1907. It was spotted without being identified in November of 1903, October of 1915 and March of 1953.

The orbit is located at the outer zone of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.44 AU and an aphelion of 3.23 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.83 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 285 days. It has an inclination of  15.4º (trevigintile@15º39', 0º15' orb). It has a diameter of about 122 km.


Orbital resonance:
9:10 with Eunomia (99.9)
7:6 with Hygiea (99.9)

 

Geographical place

Hispania was the name that the Romans used to refer to the Iberian peninsula, adopting it from the Carthaginians, after emerging victorious from the Punic Wars.


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