648 Pippa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Photometric measurements made from the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory during 2012 gave a light curve with a period of 9.263 ± 0.001 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.31 ± 0.03 in magnitude. This is inconsistent with a period estimate of 5.2 ± 0.3 made in 2004.[2] It was named after Pippa, the title character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's novel Und Pippa tanzt.

648 Pippa
Discovery
Discovered byAugust Kopff
Discovery siteHeidelberg
Discovery date11 September 1907
Designations
(648) Pippa
1907 AE
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc108.44 yr (39606 d)
Aphelion3.8302 AU (572.99 Gm)
Perihelion2.5847 AU (386.67 Gm)
3.2075 AU (479.84 Gm)
Eccentricity0.19416
5.74 yr (2098.2 d)
327.76°
0° 10m 17.688s / day
Inclination9.8005°
291.226°
178.170°
Physical characteristics
34.135±0.8 km
9.263 h (0.3860 d)
0.0509±0.002
9.68

References

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  1. ^ "648 Pippa (1907 AE)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. ^ Moravec, Patricia; Cochren, Joseph; Gerhardt, Michael; et al. (October 2012), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2012 January-April", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 39 (4): 213–216, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39..213M.
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