273 Atropos [SEP] discoverer or inventor
273 Atropos
Atropos (minor planet designation: 273 Atropos) is a typical Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 8 March 1888 in Vienna.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 23.852 ± 0.003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.60 ± 0.03 in magnitude.
External links.
- Lightcurve plot of 273 Atropos, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007)
- Asteroid
a genus of venomous snakes found in Asia
- 273 Atropos, an asteroid
- HMS "Atropos", a fictional ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower
- In chemistry, as a shorthand for atropisomer, which is a stereoisomer resulting from hindered rotation about a single bond