Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 3.4086 AU (509.92 Gm) Orbits Sun | Discovery date 14 March 1885 Observation arc 131.09 yr (47880 d) Discovered 14 March 1885 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Alternative names A901 TB, 1947 TA,1960 TC Similar 47 Aglaja, 95 Arethusa, 230 Athamantis, 68 Leto, 36 Atalante | ||
Occultation by asteroid 247 eukrate on 24 june 2008
247 Eukrate is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It is dark and probably a primitive carbonaceous body. The asteroid was discovered by Robert Luther on March 14, 1885, in Düsseldorf. It was named after Eukrate, a Nereid in Greek mythology.
In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.18 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of 134 ± 15 km.
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