Where could I find more information about this minor planet?

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Now concerning my question:
The minor planet is known as 666 Desdemona and was discovered in 1908.

Any and all information about the minor planet would be appreciated and thank you so much!

Answer 1

The asteroid 666 Desdemina is not to be confused with Desdemona, the moon of Uranus or the character from Shakespeare's Othello (and Verdi's Otello), after whom both celestial objects are named.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory sub-site of NASA's website tells us this much:

Discovered 1908-Jul-23 by Kopff, A. at Heidelberg

Semi-major axis: 2.5929153 AU
Perihelion: 1.9748177 AU
Aphelion: 3.2110129 n/a AU

Distance to Earth on 22 July 07: 3.039 AU
Distance to Sun on 22 July 07: 3.172 AU

Absolute magnitude: 10.90
Diameter 27.04 km
Orbital period: 1525.0388504 days (4.18 Earth years)
Rotation period: 15.45 hours

Given that 666 is the asteroid's Minor Planet Centre number, you might like to look up the Minor Planet Centre website: second link

Answer 2

no person got down to get Pluto got rid of, there became a want for redefinition and classification into needless to say defined categories because of the fact of (one million) asteroids at the instant are being discovered on the fee of 5000 a month (2) the only thousand+ bodies now widespread to exist previous Neptune, all discovered interior the final 15 years (3) as properly to looking a hundred and seventy stars with 2 hundred planets between them, it has now strengthen into sparkling that a number of those stars even have asteroid belts Pluto's status became redefined because of the fact of those wider issues, it particularly is all.

Answer 3

I tried the usual sources, google and wikipedia. Not much there. The "minor" in minor planet really means minor. Just another asteroid among thousands.

Answer 4

There is very little known about this Minor planet but here are a couple of links:

members.dslextreme.com/users/
rstephens/index_files/Page692.htm

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?sat_elem

Answer 5

this site will answer some of the basic questions you might have

http://www.answers.com/topic/666-desdemona

this site has some information also

http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/2007_07/0712_666_9993_Summary.txt

no problem

Answer 6

These site..might be useful to you

http://www.minorplanet.org/http://cfa-

www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html

http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/mp.shtml

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Answer 7

What an odd number designation.