Discovered by Auguste Charlois Alternative names 1897 DH Observation arc 112.19 yr (40977 d) Discovered 25 August 1897 Discoverer Auguste Charlois Discovery site Nice Observatory | Discovery date 25 August 1897 Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 3.1893 AU (477.11 Gm) Orbits Sun Named after Hippo Regius Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
 | ||
Similar 441 Bathilde, 360 Carlova, 423 Diotima, 375 Ursula, 372 Palma | ||
426 hippo
426 Hippo is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 25, 1897, in Nice. In the 22nd century, it will come closer than 6,000,000 km (0.04 AU) to the larger asteroids 65 Cybele and 511 Davida.
References
426 Hippo Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA