878 Mildred

Tags: Planet.

878 Mildred is a minor planet in the main belt orbiting the Sun. It is the lowest numbered and thus the namesake of the Mildred family of asteroids a subgroup of the Nysa family. The Mildred subgroup and by extension 878 Mildred itself is thought to have been formed by a recent fragmentation event from a larger asteroid.

apoapsis (km)

4.32971e+11

orbital period (μ)

1.14554e+08

periapsis (km)

2.73442e+11

absolute magnitude

15.0

discovery date

1916-09-06

discoverer

Seth Barnes Nicholson, Harlow Shapley

epoch

2008-05-14 (JD 2454600.5)

former name

1916 f; ;