780 Armenia

780 Armenia is a minor planet in the asteroid belt orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Kingdom of Armenia, now Armenia.

780 Armenia
Discovery
Discovered byG. N. Neujmin
Discovery siteSimeiz Observatory
Discovery date25 January 1914
Designations
(780) Armenia
Pronunciation/ɑːrˈmiə/[1]
1914 UC
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc107.14 yr (39134 d)
Aphelion3.4169 AU (511.16 Gm)
Perihelion2.8119 AU (420.65 Gm)
3.1144 AU (465.91 Gm)
Eccentricity0.097135
5.50 yr (2007.5 d)
346.438°
0° 10m 45.552s / day
Inclination19.085°
144.857°
214.403°
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
47.20±0.85 km
19.891 h (0.8288 d)
0.0498±0.002
9.00

    This object is the namesake of the Armenia family, a very small family of 13–76 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements; hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.[3]

    References

    1. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
    2. Yeomans, Donald K., "780 Armenia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 5 May 2016.
    3. Novaković, Bojan; et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus, 216 (1), pp. 69–81, arXiv:1108.3740, Bibcode:2011Icar..216...69N, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016.


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