402 Chloë (
''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a large
main-belt asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
...
. It was discovered by French astronomer
Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1895 from
Nice.
This asteroid is orbiting the
Sun at a distance of with a
period of and an
eccentricity of 0.11. The
orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 11.8° to the
plane of the ecliptic.
This asteroid spans a girth of approximately 54 km.
It is classified as a
K-type asteroid K-type asteroids are relatively uncommon asteroids with a moderately reddish spectrum shortwards of 0.75 μm, and a slight bluish trend longwards of this. They have a low albedo. Their spectrum resembles that of CV and CO meteorites. A larger K ty ...
and is a
Barbarian
A barbarian (or savage) is someone who is perceived to be either Civilization, uncivilized or primitive. The designation is usually applied as a generalization based on a popular stereotype; barbarians can be members of any nation judged by som ...
.
[ Analysis of the asteroid light curve, based on photometric data collected during 2009, show a ]rotation period
The rotation period of a celestial object (e.g., star, gas giant, planet, moon, asteroid) may refer to its sidereal rotation period, i.e. the time that the object takes to complete a single revolution around its axis of rotation relative to the ...
of with a brightness variation of in magnitude.[
]
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 402 Chloe
Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
query form
)
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
Google books
– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
– Minor Planet Center
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Background asteroids
Chloe
Chloe
S-type asteroids (Tholen)
K-type asteroids (SMASS)
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