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785 Zwetana
Main-belt asteroid
Main-belt asteroid
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| minorplanet | yes |
| background | #D6D6D6 |
| name | 785 Zwetana |
| mpc_name | (785) Zwetana |
| alt_names | 1914 UN |
| discoverer | Adam Massinger |
| discovered | 30 March 1914 |
| discovery_site | Heidelberg |
| epoch | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
| eccentricity | 0.21073 |
| orbit_ref | |
| semimajor | 2.5686 AU |
| perihelion | 2.0273 AU |
| aphelion | 3.1099 AU |
| period | 4.12 yr (1503.6 d) |
| inclination | 12.769° |
| asc_node | 71.882° |
| arg_peri | 131.607° |
| mean_anomaly | 268.20° |
| rotation | 8.919 h |
| 8.8882 h | |
| mean_motion | / day |
| observation_arc | 95.43 yr (34854 d) |
| uncertainty | 0 |
| abs_magnitude | 9.45 |
| albedo | |
| mean_radius | km |
8.8882 h
785 Zwetana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by Adam Massinger, an assistant at the Heidelberg Observatory, on March 30, 1914. It was named for the daughter of Kiril Popoff, a Bulgarian astronomer. This asteroid is orbiting from the Sun with an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.21 and a period of 1503.6 days. The orbital plane is inclined by an angle of 12.8° to the plane of the ecliptic.
This asteroid spans a girth of and it has a Tholen taxonomic class of M. Radar observations indicate that it is almost certainly metallic. The near infrared spectra suggests the presence of spinel on the surface, which is indicative of calcium–aluminium-rich inclusions. The best meteorite analog to the near infrared spectrum of this object is the enstatite chondrite, Abee.
In 1990, the asteroid was observed from the European Southern Observatory, allowing a composite light curve to be produced that showed a rotation period of and a brightness variation of in magnitude. 2013 observations from the Palmer Divide Observatory found a rotation period of 8.885 hours with a magnitude amplitude of 0.18. This is consistent with other published results.
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