 Orbital diagram | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Auguste Charlois |
| Discovery date | 20 May 1890 |
| Designations | |
| (293) Brasilia | |
| Pronunciation | /brəˈzɪliə/ |
Named after | Brazil |
| A890 KA, 1909 HB | |
| main-belt · (outer) Brasilia [1] | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 106.96 yr (39067 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.1657 AU (473.58 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.55398 AU (382.070 Gm) |
| 2.85982 AU (427.823 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.10694 |
| 4.84 yr (1766.5 d) | |
Average orbital speed | 17.61 km/s |
| 107.972° | |
| 0° 12m 13.68s / day | |
| Inclination | 15.583° |
| 61.316° | |
| 86.852° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.62263 AU (242.742 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.02111 AU (302.354 Gm) |
| TJupiter | 3.239 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 55.11±1.6 km |
| 8.17 h (0.340 d) | |
| 0.0615±0.004 | |
| 9.94 | |
293 Brasilia is a large Main belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 20 May 1890 in Nice. It is the namesake of the Brasilia family, a smaller asteroid family of X-type asteroids in the outer main-belt. However, Brasilia is a suspected interloper in its own family.[1]: 23
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Leura Observatory in Leura, Australia during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 8.173 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.20 ± 0.03 in magnitude.[3]