Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 2.6938 AU (402.99 Gm) Inclination 3.4364° Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 29 February 1880 Observation arc 136.09 yr (49707 d) Discovered 29 February 1880 Orbits Sun Discovery site Pola Observatory | |
Alternative names A903 SE, 1947 BP,1948 JE, 1949 QG2,1949 SX1, 1950 XH,1953 OO Similar 218 Bianca, 276 Adelheid, 266 Aline, 265 Anna, 36 Atalante | ||
214 Aschera is a Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on February 29, 1880 in Pola and was named after the Sidonian goddess Asherah.
It is classified as a rare E-type asteroid and is fairly faint for an object of its type. The overall diameter is estimated to be 23 km and it has a geometric albedo of 0.52. Photometric observations show a rotation period of 6.835 ± 0.001 hours with a brightness variation of 0.20 in magnitude. Using a tri-axial ellipsoidal model derived from light curve data, the overall shape of the asteroid is estimated to be a/b = 1.24 ± 0.12 and b/c = 1.83 ± 0.10, where a/b/c are the three axes of an ellipsoid.
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