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The Minor Planet Bulletin
THE MINOR PLANET BULLETIN OF THE MINOR PLANETS SECTION OF THE BULLETIN ASSOCIATION OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY OBSERVERS VOLUME 36, NUMBER 3, A.D. 2009 JULY-SEPTEMBER 77. PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF 343 OSTARA Our data can be obtained from http://www.uwec.edu/physics/ AND OTHER ASTEROIDS AT HOBBS OBSERVATORY asteroid/. Lyle Ford, George Stecher, Kayla Lorenzen, and Cole Cook Acknowledgements Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire We thank the Theodore Dunham Fund for Astrophysics, the Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004 National Science Foundation (award number 0519006), the [email protected] University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Received: 2009 Feb 11) Blugold Fellow and McNair programs for financial support. References We observed 343 Ostara on 2008 October 4 and obtained R and V standard magnitudes. The period was Binzel, R.P. (1987). “A Photoelectric Survey of 130 Asteroids”, found to be significantly greater than the previously Icarus 72, 135-208. reported value of 6.42 hours. Measurements of 2660 Wasserman and (17010) 1999 CQ72 made on 2008 Stecher, G.J., Ford, L.A., and Elbert, J.D. (1999). “Equipping a March 25 are also reported. 0.6 Meter Alt-Azimuth Telescope for Photometry”, IAPPP Comm, 76, 68-74. We made R band and V band photometric measurements of 343 Warner, B.D. (2006). A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry Ostara on 2008 October 4 using the 0.6 m “Air Force” Telescope and Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. located at Hobbs Observatory (MPC code 750) near Fall Creek, Wisconsin. -
1922MNRAS..82..149G Jan. 1922. Long-Period Inequalities In
Jan. 1922. Long-Period Inequalities in Movements of Asteroids. 149 In the case = an integer ~ is a multiple of and the solutions X2 X2 a1 1922MNRAS..82..149G with period nearly equal to — may also be regarded as periodic solution» Ai with period nearly equal to —-. A . But we have not been able (in the case when ^ is an integer) to A2 prove the existence of periodic solutions with period ^ which are not A2 • • • 2 TT at the same time periodic with period nearly equal to — . Ax Note.—The above work was completed in 1920 November, before the appearance of Moulton’s Periodic Orbits. The details of the exist- ence proofs are different from those of Buck, and it is hoped that they may be of interest. In Buck’s paper, which apparently was completed in 1912 or earlier, the equations of motion are transformed and the jacobians take a relatively simple form. In this paper only two of the families of periodic orbits treated by Buck are discussed. A full account of the other families, and also of the actual development in series of the periodic solutions, is given in Back’s paper. On Long-Period Inequalities in the Movements of Asteroids ivhose Mean Motions are nearly half that of Mars. By Wt M. H. Greaves, B. A., Isaac Newton Student in the University of Cambridge. (Communicated by Professor H. F. Baker.) In the ordinary theory of the movements of the planets as developed by Laplace and Le Verrier, the equations of motion are integrated by a method of successive approximation with regard to the masses. -
Color Study of Asteroid Families Within the MOVIS Catalog David Morate1,2, Javier Licandro1,2, Marcel Popescu1,2,3, and Julia De León1,2
A&A 617, A72 (2018) Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832780 & © ESO 2018 Astrophysics Color study of asteroid families within the MOVIS catalog David Morate1,2, Javier Licandro1,2, Marcel Popescu1,2,3, and Julia de León1,2 1 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), C/Vía Láctea s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain e-mail: [email protected] 2 Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 3 Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, 5 Cu¸titulde Argint, 040557 Bucharest, Romania Received 6 February 2018 / Accepted 13 March 2018 ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to study the compositional diversity of asteroid families based on their near-infrared colors, using the data within the MOVIS catalog. As of 2017, this catalog presents data for 53 436 asteroids observed in at least two near-infrared filters (Y, J, H, or Ks). Among these asteroids, we find information for 6299 belonging to collisional families with both Y J and J Ks colors defined. The work presented here complements the data from SDSS and NEOWISE, and allows a detailed description− of− the overall composition of asteroid families. We derived a near-infrared parameter, the ML∗, that allows us to distinguish between four generic compositions: two different primitive groups (P1 and P2), a rocky population, and basaltic asteroids. We conducted statistical tests comparing the families in the MOVIS catalog with the theoretical distributions derived from our ML∗ in order to classify them according to the above-mentioned groups. We also studied the background populations in order to check how similar they are to their associated families. -
Ice& Stone 2020
Ice & Stone 2020 WEEK 51: DECEMBER 13-19 Presented by The Earthrise Institute # 51 Authored by Alan Hale COMET OF THE WEEK: The Great Comet of 1680 Perihelion: 1680 December 18.49, q = 0.006 AU The Great Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam in The Netherlands, during late December 1680 as painted by the Dutch artist Lieve Verschuier. This particular comet was undoubtedly one of the brightest comets of the 17th Century, but it is also one of the most important comets in history from a scientific perspective, and perhaps even from the perspective of overall human history. While there were certainly plenty of superstitions attached to the comet’s appearance, the scientific investigations made of it were among the beginnings of the era in European history we now call The Enlightenment, and indeed, in a sense the Great Comet of 1680 can perhaps be considered as one of the sparks of that era. The significance began with the comet’s discovery, which was made on the morning of November 14, 1680, by a German astronomer residing in Coburg, Gottfried Kirch – the first comet ever to be discovered by means of a telescope. It was already around 4th magnitude at that time, and located near the star Regulus in the constellation Leo; from that point it traveled eastward and brightened rapidly, being closest to Earth (0.42 AU) on November 30. By that time it was a conspicuous naked-eye object with a tail 20 to 30 degrees long, and it remained visible for another week before disappearing into morning twilight. -
Aqueous Alteration on Main Belt Primitive Asteroids: Results from Visible Spectroscopy1
Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy1 S. Fornasier1,2, C. Lantz1,2, M.A. Barucci1, M. Lazzarin3 1 LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris Diderot, 5 Place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon Pricipal Cedex, France 2 Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cit´e, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75205 Paris Cedex 13 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova, Via Marzolo 8 35131 Padova, Italy Submitted to Icarus: November 2013, accepted on 28 January 2014 e-mail: [email protected]; fax: +33145077144; phone: +33145077746 Manuscript pages: 38; Figures: 13 ; Tables: 5 Running head: Aqueous alteration on primitive asteroids Send correspondence to: Sonia Fornasier LESIA-Observatoire de Paris arXiv:1402.0175v1 [astro-ph.EP] 2 Feb 2014 Batiment 17 5, Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex France e-mail: [email protected] 1Based on observations carried out at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), La Silla, Chile, ESO proposals 062.S-0173 and 064.S-0205 (PI M. Lazzarin) Preprint submitted to Elsevier September 27, 2018 fax: +33145077144 phone: +33145077746 2 Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy1 S. Fornasier1,2, C. Lantz1,2, M.A. Barucci1, M. Lazzarin3 Abstract This work focuses on the study of the aqueous alteration process which acted in the main belt and produced hydrated minerals on the altered asteroids. Hydrated minerals have been found mainly on Mars surface, on main belt primitive asteroids and possibly also on few TNOs. These materials have been produced by hydration of pristine anhydrous silicates during the aqueous alteration process, that, to be active, needed the presence of liquid water under low temperature conditions (below 320 K) to chemically alter the minerals. -
Introducing the Eulalia and New Polana Asteroid Families: Re-Assessing the Source Regions of Primitive Near-Earth Asteroids
44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013) 2835.pdf INTRODUCING THE EULALIA AND NEW POLANA ASTEROID FAMILIES: RE-ASSESSING THE SOURCE REGIONS OF PRIMITIVE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS. K. J. Walsh1, M. Delbó2, W. F. Bottke1, D. Vokrouhlický3 and D. S. Lauretta4, 1Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, 2Laboratoire Lagrange, UNS- CNRS-Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, 3Institute of Astronomy, Charles University, V Holěsovičkaćh 2, Prague 8, Czech Republic, 4Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Introduction: The inner main asteroid belt (2.15 AU < times due to the Yarkovsky effect [1]. This effect a < 2.5 AU) is the dominant source region of near- causes a secular drift of the semi-major axis of the or- Earth objects (NEOs). Of those asteroids from this bit due to the emission of the thermal radiation. region that become NEOs, most are delivered via the Whether this effect causes an increase or decrease of ν6 secular resonance located at ∼2.15 AU. In particular, an asteroid’s semimajor axis depends on its rotation this pathway is the most likely delivery source for state, whereby prograde rotators drift outward and ret- NEOs on low Δ-velocity orbits, such as the proposed rograde rotators drift inward. Thus, radial drift into a space mission targets 1996 RQ36 and 1999 JU3. These resonance, followed by rapid increase in orbital eccen- missions are specifically targeting primitive asteroids - tricity and the eventual interaction with terrestrial those asteroids of C- or B-type taxonomies that are planets, is the typical pathway for Main Belt asteroids thought to be related to Carbonaceous Chondrite mete- to become NEOs [1]. -
Physical Characterization and Origin of Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (175706) 1996 Fg
PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ORIGIN OF BINARY NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID (175706) 1996 FG The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Walsh, Kevin J., Marco Delbo’, Michael Mueller, Richard P. Binzel, and Francesca E. DeMeo. “ PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ORIGIN OF BINARY NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID (175706) 1996 FG 3 .” The Astrophysical Journal 748, no. 2 (March 13, 2012): 104. © 2012 American Meteorological Society. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/748/2/104 Publisher Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society Version Final published version Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95417 Terms of Use Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The Astrophysical Journal, 748:104 (7pp), 2012 April 1 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/104 C 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. ∗ PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ORIGIN OF BINARY NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID (175706) 1996 FG3 Kevin J. Walsh1, Marco Delbo’2, Michael Mueller2,3, Richard P. Binzel4, and Francesca E. DeMeo4 1 Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street Suite 400, Boulder, CO 80302, USA; [email protected] 2 UNS-CNRS-Observatoire de la Coteˆ d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 04, France 3 Low Energy Astrophysics, SRON, Postbox 800, 9700AV Groningen, The Netherlands 4 Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Received 2011 June 30; accepted 2012 January 19; published 2012 March 13 ABSTRACT The near-Earth asteroid (NEA) (175706) 1996 FG3 is a particularly interesting spacecraft target: a binary asteroid with a low-Δv heliocentric orbit. -
The Minor Planet Bulletin Is Open to Papers on All Aspects of 6500 Kodaira (F) 9 25.5 14.8 + 5 0 Minor Planet Study
THE MINOR PLANET BULLETIN OF THE MINOR PLANETS SECTION OF THE BULLETIN ASSOCIATION OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY OBSERVERS VOLUME 32, NUMBER 3, A.D. 2005 JULY-SEPTEMBER 45. 120 LACHESIS – A VERY SLOW ROTATOR were light-time corrected. Aspect data are listed in Table I, which also shows the (small) percentage of the lightcurve observed each Colin Bembrick night, due to the long period. Period analysis was carried out Mt Tarana Observatory using the “AVE” software (Barbera, 2004). Initial results indicated PO Box 1537, Bathurst, NSW, Australia a period close to 1.95 days and many trial phase stacks further [email protected] refined this to 1.910 days. The composite light curve is shown in Figure 1, where the assumption has been made that the two Bill Allen maxima are of approximately equal brightness. The arbitrary zero Vintage Lane Observatory phase maximum is at JD 2453077.240. 83 Vintage Lane, RD3, Blenheim, New Zealand Due to the long period, even nine nights of observations over two (Received: 17 January Revised: 12 May) weeks (less than 8 rotations) have not enabled us to cover the full phase curve. The period of 45.84 hours is the best fit to the current Minor planet 120 Lachesis appears to belong to the data. Further refinement of the period will require (probably) a group of slow rotators, with a synodic period of 45.84 ± combined effort by multiple observers – preferably at several 0.07 hours. The amplitude of the lightcurve at this longitudes. Asteroids of this size commonly have rotation rates of opposition was just over 0.2 magnitudes. -
Asteroids DOI: 10.17794/Rgn.2016.1.5
The Mining-Geology-Petroleum Engineering Bulletin UDC: 523.6 Asteroids DOI: 10.17794/rgn.2016.1.5 Review scientific paper Željko Andreić1; 1University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, full professor Abstract Asteroids are the largest minor bodies in the Solar System. Nowadays they are in the research focus due to several facts about them: first, a subclass of asteroids can collide with Earth, and consequences of such a collision are dramatic. Second, they are now seen as source of materials that are becoming scarce on Earth, and they will be needed in future space constructions anyway. Third, they are holding clues about the origin and evolution of the Solar System. In this article, a short overview of current knowledge about asteroids is presented. Last, but not least, as several Croatian scientists were recently honored by naming an asteroid after them, a short overview of the naming process is given. Keywords Solar System, asteroids, mining the asteroids 1. Introduction Even today, some textbooks describe the Solar System as a quiet, highly ordered structure. The Sun is in the center and planets revolve around it on neat elliptical orbits that are assumed to be the same since the time of creation of the Solar System. The space in between (the interplanetary space) is mostly empty, permeated by a very rarefied gas called solar wind that is peppered with a few grains of dust. Asteroids may be revealed as smaller bodies contained in the so-called asteroidal belt between Mars and Jupiter. And, beyond the last planet, Pluto, there is just cold, empty, interstellar space. -
The Minor Planet Bulletin Semi-Major Axis of 2.317 AU, Eccentricity 0.197, Inclination 7.09 (Warner Et Al., 2018)
THE MINOR PLANET BULLETIN OF THE MINOR PLANETS SECTION OF THE BULLETIN ASSOCIATION OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY OBSERVERS VOLUME 45, NUMBER 3, A.D. 2018 JULY-SEPTEMBER 215. LIGHTCURVE ANALYSIS FOR TWO NEAR-EARTH 320ʺ/min during the close approach. The eclipse was observed, ASTEROIDS ECLIPSED BY EARTH’S SHADOW within minutes of the original prediction. Preliminary rotational and eclipse lightcurves were made available soon after the close Peter Birtwhistle approach (Birtwhistle, 2012; Birtwhistle, 2013; Miles, 2013) but it Great Shefford Observatory should be noted that a possible low amplitude 8.7 h period (Miles, Phlox Cottage, Wantage Road 2013) has been discounted in this analysis. Great Shefford, Berkshire, RG17 7DA United Kingdom Several other near-Earth asteroids are known to have been [email protected] eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow, e.g. 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA (both before impacting Earth), 2012 KT42, and 2016 VA (this paper) (Received 2018 March18) but internet searches have not found any eclipse lightcurves. The asteroid lightcurve database (LCDB; Warner et al., 2009) lists a Photometry was obtained from Great Shefford reference to an unpublished result for 2012 XE54 by Pollock Observatory of near-Earth asteroids 2012 XE54 in 2012 (2013) without lightcurve details, but these have been provided on and 2016 VA in 2016 during close approaches. A request and give the rotation period as 0.02780 ± 0.00002 h, superfast rotation period has been determined for 2012 amplitude 0.33 mag derived from 101 points over a period of 30 XE54 and H-G magnitude system coefficients have been minutes for epoch 2012 Dec 10.2 UT at phase angle 19.5°, estimated for 2016 VA. -
Origin and Sustainability of the Population of Asteroids Captured In
Origin and Sustainability of The Population of Asteroids Captured in the Exterior Resonance 1:2 with Mars Tabaré Gallardoa,∗, Julia Venturinia, Fernando Roigb, Ricardo Gil-Huttonc aDepartamento de Astronomía, Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay bObservatório Nacional, Rua General José Cristino 77, 20921-400, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil cComplejo Astronómico El Leoncito (CASLEO), Av. España 1512 sur, J5402DSP San Juan, Argentina Abstract At present, approximately 1500 asteroids are known to evolve inside or sticked to the exterior 1:2 resonance with Mars at a ≃ 2.418 AU, being (142) Polana the largest member of this group. The effect of the forced secular modes superposed to the resonance gives rise to a complex dynamical evolution. Chaotic diffusion, collisions, close encounters with massive asteroids and mainly orbital migration due to the Yarkovsky effect generate continuous captures to and losses from the resonance, with a fraction of asteroids re- maining captured over long time scales and generating a concentration in the semimajor axis distribution that exceeds by 20% the population of back- ground asteroids. The Yarkovsky effect induces different dynamics according to the asteroid size, producing an excess of small asteroids inside the reso- nance. The evolution in the resonance generates a signature on the orbits, mainly in eccentricity, that depends on the time the asteroid remains cap- arXiv:1105.5108v1 [astro-ph.EP] 25 May 2011 tured inside the resonance and on the magnitude of the Yarkovsky effect. The greater the asteroids, the larger the time they remain captured in the resonance, allowing greater diffusion in eccentricity and inclination. -
A New Dynamical Population of Asteroids
To appear in \XII Reunion¶ Regional Latinoamericana de la UAI (2007)" RevMexAA(SC) A NEW DYNAMICAL POPULATION OF ASTEROIDS T. Gallardo1 RESUMEN Hemos encontrado aproximadamente 1500 asteroides evolucionando en la resonancia exterior 1:2 con Marte. Si nos ¯jamos en el histograma de semiejes mayores de los asteroides del cintur¶onprincipal la poblaci¶onpuede ser distinguida como un pico en a ' 2:419 UA. Aproximadamente 400 asteroides se encuentran librando alrededor de los centros de libraci¶onasim¶etricosy aproximadamente 700 est¶andescribiendo trayectorias tipo herradura. Una fuerte perturbaci¶onsecular debida a J¶upitery debida a la evoluci¶ontemporal de la excentricidad de Marte produce saltos entre los centros de libraci¶ony entre libraciones y trayectorias de herradura. A pesar de este fuerte efecto secular la poblaci¶onpermanece vinculada a la resonancia por escalas de tiempo de 108 ¡ 109 a~nos. ABSTRACT We have found approximately 1500 asteroids evolving in the exterior 1:2 resonance with Mars. Looking at the histogram of semimajor axes of the asteroids in the main belt the population can be distinguished as a peak at a ' 2:419 AU. Approximately 400 asteroids are librating around the asymmetric libration centers and about 700 are describing horseshoe trajectories. A strong secular perturbation due to Jupiter and due to Mars' eccentricity time evolution produces switching between libration centers and between librations and horseshoe trajectories. In spite of this strong secular e®ect the population remains linked to the resonance over time scales of 108 ¡ 109 years. Key Words: minor planets, asteroids | celestial mechanics 1. THE RESONANT POPULATION 360 174 LIBRATIONS121 transitions 635 HORSESHOES Mean motion resonances are present everywhere 300 in the solar system, the fact that they show up or not is determined by their strength which depends on the 240 planet, the particular resonance and the orbital el- ements of the asteroid's orbit (Gallardo 2006).