(3317)Paris

(3317) Paris is an asteroid that is part of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids and was discovered on May 26, 1984 by Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Carolyn Jean S. Shoemaker from the Mount Observatory Palomar, United States.

Designation and name

Paris was originally designated as 1984 KF. Later, in 1985, he named himself after Paris, a character from Greek mythology.

Orbital characteristics

Paris is located at an average distance of 5,223 ua from the Sun, being able to approach up to 4,563 ua and move away up to 5,883 ua. Its eccentricity is 0.1263 and the orbital inclination is 27.86 degrees. It takes 4,360 days to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Physical characteristics

The absolute magnitude of Paris is 8.4. It is 116.3 km in diameter and has a rotation period of 7,082 hours. Its albedo is estimated at 0.0626. Paris is assigned to the spectral type T of the SMASSII classification.