693 Zerbinetta

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox planet

| minorplanet = yes

| background = #D6D6D6

| name = 693 Zerbinetta

| mpc_name = (693) Zerbinetta

| alt_names = {{nowrap|1909 HN}}, {{nowrap|1949 QB}}, {{nowrap|1949 SW1}}, {{nowrap|1952 DR3}}

| discoverer = August Kopff

| discovered = 21 September 1909

| discovery_site= Heidelberg

| epoch = 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)

| eccentricity = 0.031644

| semimajor = {{Convert|2.9438|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| perihelion = {{Convert|2.8506|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| aphelion = {{Convert|3.0369|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| period = 5.05 yr (1844.8 d)

| inclination = 14.195°

| asc_node = 351.875°

| arg_peri = 288.790°

| mean_anomaly = 101.77°

| mean_motion = {{Deg2DMS|0.19514|sup=ms}} / day

| orbit_ref =

| abs_magnitude = 9.5

| rotation = {{Convert|11.475|h|d|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| albedo = 0.0683 ± 0.003

| mean_radius = 33.83 ± 0.65 km

| observation_arc= 38866 days (106.41 yr)

| uncertainty = 0

}}

693 Zerbinetta is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 21 September 1909 by August Kopff in Heidelberg{{Cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=693;cad=1 |title=693 Zerbinetta (1909 HN) |work=JPL Small-Body Database |publisher=NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=11 April 2016}}

{{cite web

|title=Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets

|url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.txt

|publisher=Minor Planet Center

|access-date=2015-05-18

}} and named after a character in Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos.

Between 2003 and 2022, 693 Zerbinetta was observed to occult seventeen stars.

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Further reading

  • {{Cite web

|last=Behrend |first=R.

|title=Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – 693 Zerbinetta

|url=http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page2cou.html#000693

|publisher=Observatoire de Genève

}}

  • {{cite journal

|last1=Chiorny |first1=V. G.

|last2=Shevchenko |first2=V. G.

|last3=Krugly |first3=Yu. N.

|last4=Velichko |first4=F. P.

|last5=Gaftonyuk |first5=N. M.

|year=2007

|title=Photometry of asteroids: Lightcurves of 24 asteroids obtained in 1993–2005

|journal=Planetary and Space Science

|volume=55 |issue=7–8 |pages=986

|bibcode=2007P&SS...55..986C

|doi=10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.001

|url=https://zenodo.org/record/998054

}}