467 Laura (1901 FY) is Main-belt asteroid discovered on 9 January 1901 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg. The semi-major axis of the orbit of 467 Laura lies just inside the 7/3 Kirkwood gap, located at 2.95 AU.[3] It’s named after the character Laura from Amilcare Ponchielli‘s opera La Gioconda.
References
- ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ “467 Laura (1901 FY)”. JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. 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
External links
- 467 Laura at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 467 Laura at the JPL Small-Body Database
