Main-belt asteroid
43 Ariadne is a fairly large and brightmain-belt asteroid . It is the second-largest member of theFlora asteroid family . It was discovered byN. R. Pogson on 15 April 1857 and named after theGreek heroineAriadne .
Ariadne is very elongate (almost twice as long as its smallest dimension) and probably bi-lobed[ 4] or at least very angular. It is aretrograde rotator, although its pole points almost parallel to the ecliptic towardsecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (−15°, 253°) with a 10° uncertainty.[ 3] This gives anaxial tilt of about 105°.
43 Ariadne was in a study of asteroids using the HubbleFGS . Asteroids studied include(63) Ausonia ,(15) Eunomia , (43) Ariadne,(44) Nysa , and(624) Hektor .[ 9]
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