4078 Polakis
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| Discovery and designation | |
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| Discovered by | B. A. Skiff |
| Discovery site | Flagstaff |
| Discovery date | January 9, 1983 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4078 |
| Alternative names | 1983 AC |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.334 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.701 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.1050 |
| Orbital period | 1914.758 d |
| Mean anomaly | 92.327° |
| Inclination | 11.639° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 83.433° |
| Argument of perihelion | 224.831° |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.3 |
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4078 Polakis (1983 AC) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 9, 1983 by B. A. Skiff at Flagstaff.
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2007 show a rotation period of 4.831 ± 0.003 hours with a brightness variation of 0.38 ± 0.02 magnitude.[1]
References
- ↑ Torno, Steven; Oliver, Robert Lemke; Ditteon, Richard (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory - October 2007", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 35 (2): 54–55, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...54T.
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