Main-belt asteroid
401 Ottilia is a large main-belt asteroid . It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 16, 1895, in Heidelberg . It is named after the Germanic folkloric character Ottilia .
The semi-major axis of the orbit of 401 Ottilia lies just outside the 2/1 Kirkwood gap , located at 3.27 AU .[ 2] 401 Ottilia is part of the Cybele asteroid group .[ 3]
References
^ "401 Ottilia (1895 BT)" . JPL Small-Body Database . NASA /Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 10 May 2016 .
^ Scholl, Hans ; Froeschlé, Claude (September 1975), "Asteroidal motion at the 5/2, 7/3 and 2/1 resonances", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 42 (3): 457–463, Bibcode :1975A&A....42..457S
^ Lagerkvist, Claes-Ingvar; et al. (January 2001), "A Study of Cybele Asteroids. I. Spin Properties of Ten Asteroids", Icarus , 149 (1): 190–197, Bibcode :2001Icar..149..190L , doi :10.1006/icar.2000.6507 .
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