192 Nausikaa

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192 Nausikaa is a large main-belt S-type asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 17 1879 at Pula then in Austria now in Croatia. The name derives from Nausicaä a princess in Homer’s Odyssey.This is an S-type asteroid around 86 km with an elliptical ratio of 1.51. The sidereal rotation period is 13.6217 hours.Based on the lightcurve data obtained from Nausikaa a possible satellite was reported in 1985. However this has not been confirmed.

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apoapsis (km)

4.48345e+11

orbital period (μ)

1.17394e+08

periapsis (km)

2.70473e+11

absolute magnitude

7.13

albedo

0.233

apparent magnitude

8.2

discoverer

Johann Palisa

rotation period (s)

49039.2