Iphigenia articles
Deeper dives into Iphigenia, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
C. H. F. Peters: revolutionary, surveyor and asteroid hunter
The life of the German-American astronomer who found Iphigenia and 47 other asteroids from upstate New York.
Read →Why is Iphigenia so dark?
An albedo of 0.042, a carbonaceous classification, and what dark asteroids tell us about the early Solar System.
Read →Measuring a 31-hour spin
How observers in Mallorca and elsewhere timed one of Iphigenia’s slow rotations.
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