467_Laura

467 Laura

467 Laura

Main-belt asteroid

Laura (minor planet designation: 467 Laura) (1901 FY) is Main-belt asteroid discovered on 9 January 1901 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg. The semi-major axis of the orbit of 467 Laura lies just inside the 7/3 Kirkwood gap, located at 2.95 AU.[3] It's named after the character Laura from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda.

Laura's orbit
The Kirkwood gaps

Quick Facts Discovery, Discovered by ...

References

  1. [1]
    Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  2. [2]
    "467 Laura (1901 FY)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. [3]
    Scholl, Hans; Froeschlé, Claude (September 1975), "Asteroidal motion at the 5/2, 7/3 and 2/1 resonances", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 (3): 457–463, Bibcode:1975A&A....42..457S


Stub icon

This article about an asteroid native to the asteroid belt is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 467_Laura, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.