12 Victoria
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12 Victoria is a large main-belt asteroid, orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.56 years and an eccentricity of 0.221. It is a stony (S-type) asteroid, about 112–124 km across with an albedo of 0.18 and a rotation period of 8.66 hours. Victoria has been observed to occult a star three times since its discovery. Radar and speckle interferometry observations show that the shape of Victoria is elongated, and it is suspected to be a binary asteroid, with a moon of irregular shape.[1]
History
This minor planet was discovered by English astronomer John R. Hind on 13 September 1850. Victoria is officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but the name also honours Queen Victoria. The goddess Victoria (Nike for the Greeks) was the daughter of Styx by the Titan Pallas. The coincidence with the name of the then-reigning queen caused quite a controversy at the time, and Benjamin A. Gould, editor of the Astronomical Journal, adopted the alternate name Clio (now used by 84 Klio), proposed by the discoverer. However, William C. Bond, of the Harvard College Observatory, then the highest authority on astronomy in the United States, held that the mythological condition was fulfilled and the name therefore acceptable, and his opinion eventually prevailed.[2]Template:Rp
The historical symbol for Victoria was a star with a branch of laurel. It is encoded in Unicode 17.0 as U+1CEC5 (File:Victoria symbol (fixed width).svg).[3][4]
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Orbit
| Date and time of closest approach |
Earth distance (AU) |
Sun distance (AU) |
Velocity relative to Earth (km/s) |
Velocity relative to Sun (km/s) |
Uncertainty region (3-sigma) |
Solar elongation |
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| 26 June 2028 ≈01:57 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Script error: No such module "convert". | 6.4 | 23.7 | ± 7 km | 166.9° |
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See also
Notes
References
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External links
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