1000 Piazzia

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1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1923. It was the 1000th minor planet to be numbered and was named in honour of Giuseppe Piazzi who discovered the first asteroid 1 Ceres.Its radius is estimated to be 24 km (15 mi) and measurements of its light curve by Robert D. Stephens in 2001 showed it to be rotating with a period of 9.47 hours.The planet Piazzia comes closest to is Mars. It draws nearer than 1.33 AU eleven times in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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apoapsis (km)

5.96013e+11

average speed (km/s)

59220.0

density (μ3)

2000.0

mass (kg)

1100.0

orbital period (μ)

1.782e+08

periapsis (km)

3.52737e+11

temperature (K)

156.0

absolute magnitude

9.6

albedo

0.1

discovery date

1923-08-12

discoverer

Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

epoch

August 27 2011 (JD 2455800.5)

escape velocity (kmh)

90.72