337 Devosa

337 Devosa is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 22 September 1892 in Nice. The asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.38 AU with a period of 3.68 years and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.14. These orbital elements are similar to that of the large asteroid 4 Vesta.^[3] The orbital plane of 337 Devosa is tilted at an angle of 7.85° to the plane of the ecliptic.^[1]

This is classified as an X-type asteroid in the Tholen system^[1] and Xk type in the Bus-DeMeo taxonomy, with spectral properties similar to mesosiderites.^[3] It spans a girth of 59±2 km and has a rotation period of 4.65 h.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "337 Devosa (1892 E)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Fienga, A.; Avdellidou, C.; Hanuš, J. (February 2020). "Asteroid masses obtained with INPOP planetary ephemerides". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492 (1). doi:10.1093/mnras/stz3407.
^ ^a ^b Vernazza, P.; et al. (August 2009), "Plausible parent bodies for enstatite chondrites and mesosiderites: Implications for Lutetia's fly-by" (PDF), Icarus, 202 (2): 477–486, Bibcode:2009Icar..202..477V, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.016, S2CID 121063328.
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