4547 Massachusetts

Massachusetts
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Kazuro Watanabe and Kin Endate
Discovery site Sapporo
Discovery date May 16, 1990
Designations
MPC designation 4547
Named after
 Massachusetts
1990 KP
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion 2.7932228
Perihelion 2.4359104
Eccentricity 0.0683311
1544.1802185
274.39780
Inclination 17.99918
358.40989
36.98933
Physical characteristics
0.1184
11.00

    4547 Massachusetts (1990 KP) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 16, 1990 by Kazuro Watanabe and Kin Endate at Sapporo. Photometric observations of the asteroid during 2006 at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, were used to generate a light curve with a period of 7.703 ± 0.005 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.29 ± 0.02 magnitude.[1]

    References

    1. ↑ Warner, Brian D. (September 2006), "Asteroid lightcurve analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory - late 2005 and early 2006", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 33: 58–62, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...58W.

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