704 Interamnia
Video of Interamnia made from six CCD images taken on 1-2 April 2003 with the Bowling Green State University 0.5-meter telescope and CCD. On the night of observing, Interamnia had a magnitude of 11.9 and was moving at around 0.26" per minute. © Gloria Doller and Andy Layden.
704 Interamnia is the fifth largest main belt asteroid. It was given the Latin name for the town in which it was discovered – Teramo, Italy – by Vincenzo Cerulli in 1910.
| diameter | 338 km |
| albedo | 0.06 |
| spectral class | F |
| rotational period | 8.73 hours |
| semimajor axis | 3.062 AU |
| perihelion | 2.617 AU |
| aphelion | 3.512 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.146 |
| inclination | 17.32° |
| period | 5.36 years |
