2145 Blaauw
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| Discovery and designation | |
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| Discovered by | R. M. West |
| Discovery site | La Silla |
| Discovery date | October 24, 1976 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 2145 |
| Named after | Adriaan Blaauw |
| Alternative names | 1976 UF |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.5206050 |
| Perihelion | 2.9338936 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0908996 |
| Orbital period | 2117.6159174 |
| Mean anomaly | 93.48418 |
| Inclination | 15.02657 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 264.54876 |
| Argument of perihelion | 279.26005 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Geometric albedo | 0.0869 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 10.60 |
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2145 Blaauw (1976 UF) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1976 by Richard Martin West at La Silla. Photometric measurements made from the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory during 2012 gave a light curve with a period of 12.141 ± 0.003 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.18 ± 0.03 in magnitude.[1]
References
- ↑ Moravec, Patricia; Cochren, Joseph; Gerhardt, Michael et al. (October 2012), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2012 January-April", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 39 (4): 213–216, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39..213M.
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