1467 Mashona
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. Jackson |
| Discovery site | Johannesburg Obs. |
| Discovery date | 30 July 1938 |
| Designations | |
| (1467) Mashona | |
Named after | Shona people (Mashona) (natives of Mashonaland) |
| 1938 OE · 1930 DL 1936 DK · 1936 FA1 1948 EG · A923 CB | |
| main-belt · (outer) | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 94.41 yr (34,483 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.8268 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.9485 AU |
| 3.3877 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1296 |
| 6.24 yr (2,277 days) | |
| 255.30° | |
| 0° 9m 29.16s / day | |
| Inclination | 21.910° |
| 326.50° | |
| 349.55° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 89.160±0.728 km 90.93±28.77 km 95.08±1.30 km 104.119±1.062 km 107.54 km (calculated) |
| 9.740±0.0029 h 9.744±0.001 h 9.76 h | |
| 0.05±0.03 0.057 (assumed) 0.0609±0.0111 0.074±0.002 0.083±0.014 | |
| Tholen = GC · GC B–V = 0.743 U–B = 0.373 | |
| 8.515±0.001 (R) 8.57 | |
1467 Mashona, provisional designation 1938 OE, is a rare-type carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 100 kilometers in diameter, making it one of the top 200 largest asteroids currently known to exist. It was discovered on 30 July 1938, by South African astronomer Cyril Jackson at the Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. It was later named after the native Shona people of Zimbabwe.