Discovery date 27 October 1927 Aphelion 3.0173 AU (451.38 Gm) Semi-major axis 2.6111 AU (390.62 Gm) Absolute magnitude 11.3 Discoverer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | Observation arc 88.15 yr (32198 days) Perihelion 2.2050 AU (329.86 Gm) Discovered 27 October 1927 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg Discovery site Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl Similar 1111 Reinmuthia, 1102 Pepita, 1056 Azalea, 107 Camilla, 11 Parthenope | ||
1119 Euboea is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on October 27, 1927, at Heidelberg, Germany. Its provisional designation was 1927 UB. It was named for Euboea, or Negropont, the largest island of Greece in the Aegean. The asteroid is 31½ kilometers in diameter and completes one revolution around the Sun in about 4 years.
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2007 show a rotation period of 11.41 ± 0.201 hours with a brightness variation of 0.5 ± 0.02 magnitude.
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