720 Bohlinia

720 Bohlinia

Name
Name Bohlinia
Designation 1911 MW
Discovery
Discoverer Franz Kaiser
Discovery date October 18, 1911
Discovery site Heidelberg
Orbital elements
Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.014
Semimajor axis (a) 2.888 AU
Perihelion (q) 2.848 AU
Aphelion (Q) 2.928 AU
Orbital period (P) 4.908 a
Inclination (i) 2.359°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 35.939°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 103.893°
Mean anomaly (M) 281.521°

720 Bohlinia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

720 Bohlinia was discovered by Franz Kaiser, a German astronomer in 1911. It is named for Karl Petrus Theodor Bohlin, Swedish astronomer to mark his 65th birthday.[1]

It is one of the Koronis family of asteroids. A group of astronomers, including Lucy d’Escoffier Crespo da Silva and Richard P. Binzel, used observations made between 1998 through 2000 to determine the spin-vector alignment of these asteroids. The collaborative work resulted in the creation of 61 new individual rotation lightcurves to augment previous published observations.[2]

Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top
  2. ^ Slivan, S. M., Binzel, R. P., Crespo da Silva, L. D., Kaasalainen, M., Lyndaker, M. M., Krco, M.: “Spin vectors in the Koronis family: comprehensive results from two independent analyses of 213 rotation lightcurves,”Icarus, 162, 2003, pp. 285–307.
  3. ^ Bus, S., Binzel, R. P. Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II. EAR-A-I0028-4-SBN0001/SMASSII-V1.0. NASA Planetary Data System, 2003.

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