385 Ilmatar

Main-belt asteroid

Ilmatar (minor planet designation: 385 Ilmatar) is a large main belt asteroid.

It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 1, 1894, in Heidelberg.[3] It was named after Ilmatar, virgin spirit of the air from the Finnish epic Kalevala. Its mass has been estimated as (1.039 ± 0.515/0.201)×1018 kg.[2] Its rotation is 62.35 hr.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "385 Ilmatar (1894 AX)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Fienga, A.; Avdellidou, C.; Hanuš, J. (February 2020). "Asteroid masses obtained with INPOP planetary ephemerides". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492 (1): 589–602. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz3407.
  3. ^ "Physics and Astronomy > Dictionary of Minor Planet Names > (385) Ilmatar". Springer Reference. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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