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269 Justitia is an asteroid located in the middle main asteroid belt. It was discovered on 21 September 1887 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory and was named after Justitia, th
Shape of Justitia as seen by stellar occultation observations on 31 August 2023
Diagram of Justitia's orbit with other planets
Three mutually orthogonal views of Justitia's shape model constructed from its rotational light curve
Comparison of the very red spectra of asteroids Pompeja (orange) and Justitia (purple) with other Solar System bodies. The spectra of Pompeja and Justitia match best with those of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), suggesting similar compositions.
In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. Centaurs generally have unsta
269 Justitia
…compared to any other asteroid in the asteroid belt. Spectroscopic observations show that Justitia's color and composition appears to resemble those of centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects from the outer Solar System, whose surfaces are composed of ices and complex organic compounds (tholins). Hence, researchers…
Phoebe, a moon of Saturn imaged by the Cassini-Huygens probe in 2004, is theorized to be a captured centaur.
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