1505 Koranna

1505 Koranna
Discovery[1]
Discovered by Cyril V. Jackson
Discovery site Union Observatory
Discovery date April 21, 1939
Designations
MPC designation 1505
Alternate name(s) 1939 HH
Minor planet
category
main belt [2]
Epoch November 30, 2008
Ap 3.0085 AU
Peri 2.3126 AU
Semi-major axis 2.66052 AU
Eccentricity 0.130777
Orbital period 1585.07 days (4.34 years)
Mean anomaly 8.141°
Inclination 14.457°
Longitude of ascending node 248.505°
Argument of peri 343.017°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 20.88 kilometres (12.97 mi) ± 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi)
Mean diameter[4]
Rotation period 4.451 ± 0.001 hours [5]
Albedo 0.0929 ± 0.022 [4]
Absolute magnitude (H) 11.6 [6]

1505 Koranna (1939 HH) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1939 by Cyril V. Jackson at Union Observatory.[1] It is named for a tribe of bushmen from the Kalahari Desert.[7]

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 28, 2008. 
  2. ^ "1505 Koranna (1939 HH)". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1505+Koranna. Retrieved December 28, 2008. 
  3. ^ "(1505) Koranna". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=1505. Retrieved 28 December 2008. 
  4. ^ 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 December 28, 2008. 
  5. ^ Oliver et al. (2008). "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2008 March". The Minor Planet Bulletin 35 (4): 149–150. Bibcode 2008MPBu...35..149O. 
  6. ^ 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 December 28, 2008. 
  7. ^ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (fifth ed.). Germany: Springer. p. 120. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA120. Retrieved 2008-12-28.