23327 Luchernandez

23327 Luchernandez
Discovery[1]
Discovered by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team
Discovery site Socorro, New Mexico
Discovery date January 20, 2001
Designations
MPC designation 23327
Alternate name(s) 2001 BE31
Minor planet
category
Main belt [2]
Epoch November 30, 2008
Ap 2.5977 AU
Peri 2.0737 AU
Semi-major axis 2.33572 AU
Eccentricity 0.112158
Orbital period 1303.86 days (3.57 years)
Mean anomaly 93.761°
Inclination 5.755°
Longitude of ascending node 146.396°
Argument of peri 319.926°
Physical characteristics
Rotation period 4.933 ± 0.007 hours [4]
Absolute magnitude (H) 15.2 [5]

23327 Luchernandez is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 20, 2001.[1] A rotation period of 4.933 hours was determined at Modra Observatory in 2008; however, a period of 5.49 hours also fits the data.[4] The asteroid was named for Lucero Hernandez, who won second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her computer science team project.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (20001)-(25000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs020001.html. Retrieved December 19, 2008. 
  2. ^ "23327 Luchernandez (2001 BE31)". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=23327+Luchernandez. Retrieved December 27, 2008. 
  3. ^ "(23327) Luchernandez". AstDyS. Italy: University of Pisa. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=23327. Retrieved December 19, 2008. 
  4. ^ a b Galád et al. (2008). "A Collection of Lightcurves from Modra: 2007 December- 2008 June". The Minor Planet Bulletin 35 (4): 144–146. Bibcode 2008MPBu...35..144G. 
  5. ^ Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0.. Planetary Data System. http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html. Retrieved December 27, 2008. 
  6. ^ "2007 Award Honorees". Lincoln Laboratory. http://www.ll.mit.edu/outreach/2007honorees.html. Retrieved December 27, 2008.