270 Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887, in Clinton, New York, and was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita.

270 Anahita
Orbital diagram
Discovery
Discovered byC. H. F. Peters
Discovery date8 October 1887
Designations
(270) Anahita
Pronunciation/ɑːnəˈhtə, ænə-/
Named after
Anahita
A887 TA, 1926 VG
Main belt
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc118.40 yr (43246 d)
Aphelion2.5290 AU (378.33 Gm)
Perihelion1.8692 AU (279.63 Gm)
2.1991 AU (328.98 Gm)
Eccentricity0.15003
3.26 yr (1191.2 d)
219.26°
0° 18m 8.028s / day
Inclination2.3667°
254.390°
80.490°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions50.78±2.0 km[1]
50.78 km[2]
15.06 h (0.628 d)
0.2166±0.018
S
8.75

In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 0.92 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 47 ± 7 km.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "270 Anahita". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ^ "The Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey" Archived 7 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine Astron. J., 123, 1056-1085
  3. ^ Magri, Christopher; et al. (January 2007), "A radar survey of main-belt asteroids: Arecibo observations of 55 objects during 1999 2003" (PDF), Icarus, 186 (1): 126–151, Bibcode:2007Icar..186..126M, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.018, retrieved 14 April 2015.
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