1148 Rarahu
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A three-dimensional model of 1148 Rarahu based on its light curve.
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch |
| Discovery date | 1929-Jul-05 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454400.5 (2007-Oct-27.0) TDB | |
| Aphelion | 3.3630401 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.6699719 AU |
| 3.016506 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1148793 |
| 1913.6156678 days 5.24 years |
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| 321.60083 ° | |
| Inclination | 10.8444 ° |
| 145.57687 ° | |
| 174.02848 ° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | diameter 33.23 |
| 6. h | |
| 0.1393 | |
| S (Tholen) K (SSMASSII) | |
| 10.15 mag | |
1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929.[1] On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rarahu is the Tahitian name for a girl, taken from the novel Le mariage de Loti (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.[2]
