401 Ottilia

401 Ottilia
Orbital diagram
Discovery
Discovered byMax Wolf
Discovery date16 March 1895
Designations
(401) Ottilia
Pronunciation/ɒˈtɪliə/
Named after
Ottilia
1895 BT
Main belt (Cybele)
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc121.08 yr (44225 d)
Aphelion3.46736 AU (518.710 Gm)
Perihelion3.2222 AU (482.03 Gm)
3.34480 AU (500.375 Gm)
Eccentricity0.036643
6.12 yr (2234.4 d)
172.933°
0° 9m 40.032s / day
Inclination5.9715°
36.138°
294.690°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions99.12±2.1 km
6.049 h (0.2520 d)
0.0412±0.002
9.2

401 Ottilia is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 16, 1895, in Heidelberg. It is named after the Germanic folkloric character Ottilia.

The semi-major axis of the orbit of 401 Ottilia lies just outside the 2/1 Kirkwood gap, located at 3.27 AU.[2] 401 Ottilia is part of the Cybele asteroid group.[3]

  1. ^ "401 Ottilia (1895 BT)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference aa42_3_457 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lagerkvist2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).