3494 Purple Mountain

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3494 Purple Mountain is a small asteroid in the asteroid belt. It is not purple; its unusual name comes from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China where it was rediscovered in 1980. (It had been seen but lost several times since 1962. See lost asteroids.)Purple Mountain is a vestoid a fragment blasted off the giant asteroid 4 Vesta by the impact that formed the Vestian collisional family.

apoapsis (km)

3.97281e+11

average speed (km/s)

69660.0

orbital period (μ)

1.13687e+08

periapsis (km)

3.05825e+11

temperature (K)

182.0

absolute magnitude

12.7

discovery date

1980-12-07

discoverer

Purple Mountain Observatory

epoch

November 26 2005 (JD 2453700.5)

former name

1969 UD; 1972 OA, 1980 XW; ;