.png) A three-dimensional model of 528 Rezia based on its light curve | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 20 March 1904 |
| Designations | |
| (528) Rezia | |
| Pronunciation | /rɛˈzaɪə/,[1] German: [ˈʁeːtsiaː] |
| 1904 NS | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 112.08 yr (40937 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.4643 AU (518.25 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 3.3395 AU (499.58 Gm) |
| 3.4019 AU (508.92 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.018346 |
| 6.27 yr (2291.8 d) | |
| 136.691° | |
| 0° 9m 25.488s / day | |
| Inclination | 12.678° |
| 49.641° | |
| 338.786° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 41.71±1.5 km | |
| 7.337 h (0.3057 d) | |
| 0.0561±0.004 | |
| 9.14 | |
528 Rezia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 20, 1904. It is named for a character in the 1826 opera Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber.[3][4][5] Among the 248 discoveries by Wolf, he also discovered 527 Euryanthe and 529 Preziosa on the same day.[3]
The mostly likely source for the name of the asteroid is the character Rezia in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon, given that around 1904 the astronomer was frequently using the names of female opera characters for the asteroids he discovered.
In 1907, August Kopff's November 1 sighting of the provisionally designated 1907 AQ was instead determined to be 528 Rezia.[6]
In 1987, it was reported that Rezia has a flat spectrum and IRAS albedo value pv=0.54 ± 0.0004, which is very dark and consistent with a C-type asteroid.[7]
- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ "528 Rezia (1904 NS)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b Lutz D. Schmadel (2012). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Vol. 6 (6th ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 55. ISBN 978-3-642-29718-2.
- ^ "Science Gossip". The Athenæum. No. 4177. 16 November 1907. p. 625.
- ^ Photographic Observations of Asteroids, Astronomische Nachrichten, volume 190, Issue 3, p.55 (1911)
- ^ Minor Planet Notes, The Observatory (December 1907), p. 466-67
- ^ Vilas, Faith and McFadden, Lucy Ann. New CCD Reflectance Spectra of Outer Belt Asteroids, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 19, p.825 (1987)