318 Magdalena

Tags: Planet.

318 Magdalena is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 24 1891 in Nice.On April 15 2005 UT Magdalena occulted a 10.7 mag star in the constellation Scutum for observers along a path across Australia.Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 106.08 ± 0.25 km and a geometric albedo of 0.03 ± 0.01.

apoapsis (km)

5.17754e+11

average speed (km/s)

60012.0

orbital period (μ)

1.80127e+08

periapsis (km)

4.37837e+11

absolute magnitude

9.4

discovery date

1891-09-24

discoverer

Auguste Charlois

epoch

30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)