Discovered by J. Palisa Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 3.5210 AU (526.73 Gm) Inclination 11.388° Discoverer Johann Palisa Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 8 November 1875 Observation arc 140.43 yr (51293 d) Discovered 8 November 1875 Orbits Sun Discovery site Pola Observatory | |
Perihelion 1.99069 AU (297.803 Gm) Similar 142 Polana, 188 Menippe, 178 Belisana, 153 Hilda, 193 Ambrosia | ||
155 Scylla is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer J. Palisa on November 8, 1875, and named after the monster Scylla in Greek mythology. Two weeks after its discovery this asteroid became lost and was not recovered for 95 years. It was finally found by Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland with the aid of an ephemeris created in 1970 by Conrad M. Bardwell at Cincinnati Observatory.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, gave an asymmetrical, bimodal light curve with a period of 7.9597 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.46 ± 0.03 in magnitude.
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