944 Hidalgo is an asteroid in the Sol system.
Description[]
944 Hidalgo is a centaur[1] on an eccentric, cometary-like orbit between the asteroid belt and the outer Solar System that has an orbital period of 13 years and 9 months.[2]
The asteroid is approximately 52 kilometers (32 miles) in diameter. The dark D-type object[3] has a rotation period of 10.1 hours and an elongated shape.
History[]
Discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade in 1920, it is the first member of the dynamical class of centaurs ever to be discovered.
Events[]
Diogo Harari was found floating beyond 944 Hidalgo[4] after his drunken uncle threw him in their rockhopper's airlock with his suit and then into the vacuum of space before proceeding to fling his haul directly at a Martian Congressional Republic Navy vessel that had previously boarded them.[5]
Trivia[]
- 944 Hidalgo was named after Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.[Citation needed]
References[]
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Centaur (small Solar System body)
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944 Hidalgo
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D-type asteroid
- ↑ The Expanse TV Series - Season 2, Episode 7: "The Seventh Man"
- ↑ The Expanse TV Series - Season 1, Episode 6: "Rock Bottom"