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399 Persephone

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Main-belt asteroid

399 Persephone
Discovery
A three-dimensional model of 399 Persephone based on its light curve
Discovered by	Max Wolf
Discovery date	23 February 1895
Designations
MPC designation	(399) Persephone
Pronunciation	/pərˈsɛfəniː/^[1]
Named after	Persephone
Alternative designations	1895 BP
Minor planet category	Main belt
Orbital characteristics^[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	120.99 yr (44191 d)
Aphelion	3.2761 AU (490.10 Gm)
Perihelion	2.82735 AU (422.966 Gm)
Semi-major axis	3.0517 AU (456.53 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.073517
Orbital period (sidereal)	5.33yr (1947.2d)
Mean anomaly	255.116°
Mean motion	0° 11^m 5.568^s / day
Inclination	13.113°
Longitude of ascending node	346.391°
Argument of perihelion	194.023°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	49.13±4.0 km
Synodic rotation period	9.136 h (0.3807 d)
Geometric albedo	0.1838±0.034
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.0,^[2] 8.91^[3]

399 Persephone is amain belt asteroid. It was discovered by German astronomerMax Wolf on 23 February 1895 inHeidelberg.^[4]

^Noah Webster (1884)A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^^a ^bYeomans, Donald K.,"399 Persephone",JPL Small-Body Database Browser,NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, archived fromthe original on 5 September 2019, retrieved10 May 2016.
^Warner, Brian D. (December 2007), "Initial Results of a Dedicated H-G Project",The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 34, pp. 113–119,Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
^Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003).Dictionary of minor planet names. Springer. p. 48.ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.

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