1503 Kuopio

1503 Kuopio
Discovery[1]
Discovered by Yrjö Väisälä
Discovery site Turku
Discovery date December 15, 1938
Designations
MPC designation 1503
Named after Kuopio
Alternate name(s) 1938 XD
Minor planet
category		 main belt
Epoch November 30, 2008
Ap 2.898 AU
Peri 2.3562 AU
Semi-major axis 2.62707 AU
Eccentricity 0.103123
Orbital period 1555.27 days (4.26 years)
Mean anomaly 135.201°
Inclination 12.381°
Longitude of ascending node 317.067°
Argument of peri 176.539°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 18.43 kilometres (11.45 mi) ± 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi)
Mean diameter[3]
Rotation period 9.98 ± 0.03 hours [4]
Albedo 0.2995 ± 0.056 [3]
Absolute magnitude (H) 10.6 [5]

1503 Kuopio (1938 XD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 15, 1938 by Yrjö Väisälä at Turku.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html. Retrieved December 7, 2008. 
  2. ^ "(1503) Kuopio". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=1503. Retrieved December 15, 2008. 
  3. ^ a b Tedesco et al. (2004). "Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey (SIMPS)". IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. http://www.webcitation.org/5mqp8r4gD. Retrieved January 8, 2009. 
  4. ^ Székely et al.; Kiss, L; Szabo, G; Sarneczky, K; Csak, B; Varadi, M; Meszaros, S (2005). "CCD photometry of 23 minor planets" (abstact). Planetary and Space Science 53 (9): 925–936. arXiv:astro-ph/0504462. Bibcode 2005P&SS...53..925S. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2005.04.006. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6T-4G9GNMH-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5bcf44985129d7e418e7099f4e8e172e.  web preprint
  5. ^ Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0.. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on June 11, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080611192847/http%3A//www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html. Retrieved January 8, 2009. 

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