3908 Nyx
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Discoverer |
H.-E. Schuster - 1980
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Diameter (km) |
1.0 - 2.2 |
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Mass (kg) |
? |
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Rotation period (hrs) |
4.4257 |
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Orbital period (yrs) |
2.67103 |
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Semimajor axis (AU) |
1.92630 |
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Orbital eccentricity |
0.45861 |
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Orbital Inclination (deg) |
2.17670 |
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Albedo |
0.23 |
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Type |
V |
| Named for the goddess and personification of the night. She was a daughter
of Chaos and had many children by her brother Erebus, who personifies
the subterranean darkness. The realm of Nyx was in the far West, beyond
the land of Atlas. |
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Images of Nyx |
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Last updated: March 15, 2002.
