160 Una Monday, June 22, 2009

Discovery
Discovered by C. H. F. Peters
Discovery date February 20, 1876
Designations
Alternate name
Minor planet
category
Main belt
Epoch January 30, 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Aphelion 435.556 Gm (2.912 AU)
Perihelion 380.561 Gm (2.544 AU)
Semi-major axis 408.058 Gm (2.728 AU)
Eccentricity 0.067
Orbital period 1645.485 d (4.51 a)
Average orbital speed 18.01 km/s
Mean anomaly 308.565°
Inclination 3.824°
Longitude of ascending node 8.856°
Argument of perihelion 49.974°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 81.2 km
Mass 5.6×1017 kg
Mean density 2.0? g/cm³
Equatorial surface gravity 0.0227 m/s²
Escape velocity 0.0429 km/s
Rotation period 0.234 d (5.61 h) 1
Albedo 0.063 3
Temperature ~170 K
Spectral type C 2
Absolute magnitude (H) 9.08

160 Una is a fairly large and dark, primitive Main belt asteroid.

It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 20, 1876 in Clinton, New York. It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).

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