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648 Pippa

648 Pippa

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648 Pippa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Photometric measurements made from the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory during 2012 gave a light curve with a period of 9.263 ± 0.001 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.31 ± 0.03 in magnitude. This is inconsistent with a period estimate of 5.2 ± 0.3 made in 2004.[2] It was named after Pippa, the title character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's novel Und Pippa tanzt.

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    "648 Pippa (1907 AE)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    Moravec, Patricia; Cochren, Joseph; Gerhardt, Michael; et al. (October 2012), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2012 January-April", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 39 (4): 213–216, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39..213M.


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