49 Pales (pronounced /ˈpeɪliːz/) is a large, dark Main belt asteroid. Pales was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt on September 19, 1857[1] and named after Pales, goddess of shepherds in Roman mythology.[9]
References
1. ^ a b "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
2. ^ "49 Pales". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=49+Pales. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
3. ^ "(49) Pales". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=49. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
4. ^ a b Tedesco et al. (2004). "Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey (SIMPS)". IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0. Planetary Data System. http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
5. ^ Jim Baer (2008). "Recent Asteroid Mass Determinations". Personal Website. http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/astmass.txt. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
6. ^ Schober et al. (1979). "Photoelectric photometry and rotation periods of three large and dark asteroids - 49 Pales, 88 THISBE and 92 Undina". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 36: 1–8. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1979A%26AS...36....1S.
7. ^ Neese (2005). "Asteroid Taxonomy". EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V5.0. Planetary Data System. http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
8. ^ Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0.. Planetary Data System. http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
9. ^ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (fifth ed.). Germany: Springer. p. 19. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA19. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
External links
* Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Ephemeris