696 Leonora

{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox planet

| minorplanet= yes

| background= #D6D6D6

| name= 696 Leonora

| mpc_name= (696) Leonora

| alt_names= 1910 JJ

| mp_category = main-belt{{·}}{{small|(outer)}}
Meliboea

| discoverer= Joel Hastings Metcalf

| discovered= 10 January 1910

| discovery_site= Taunton, Massachusetts

| epoch= 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)

| eccentricity= 0.25085

| semimajor= {{Convert|3.1707|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| perihelion= {{Convert|2.3753|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| aphelion= {{Convert|3.9660|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| period= 5.65 yr (2062.2 d)

| inclination= 13.036°

| asc_node= 299.519°

| arg_peri= 104.093°

| mean_anomaly= 307.652°

| mean_motion= {{Deg2DMS|0.17457|sup=ms}} / day

| orbit_ref= {{Cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=696;cad=1 |title=696 Leonora (1910 JJ) |work=JPL Small-Body Database |publisher=NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=5 May 2016}}

| observation_arc= 95.46 yr (34866 d)

| uncertainty= 0

| abs_magnitude= 9.4

| rotation= {{Convert|26.8964|h|d|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| albedo= {{val|0.0773|0.004}}

| mean_radius= {{val|37.88|1}} km

}}

696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.{{cite book|last1=Schmadel|first1=Lutz D.|author-link1=Lutz D. Schmadel|title=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names|date=1997|publisher=Springer-Verlag|location=Berlin|isbn=9783662066157|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHv1CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106}}