724 Hapag

724 Hapag
Discovery
Discovered by J. Palisa
Discovery site Vienna
Discovery date October 21, 1911
Designations
1911 NC
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5)
Aphelion 3.067 AU
Perihelion 1.848 AU
2.458 AU
Eccentricity 0.248
3.853 a
129.550°
Inclination 11.711°
204.338°
205.161°
Physical characteristics
3.1305[2] h

    724 Hapag is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt[3] that was found by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911.[3] It was assigned a provisional name of 1911 NC, then was lost until it was rediscovered in 1988 as 1988 VG2 by T. Hioki and N. Kawasato at Okutama, Japan.[4]

    Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 3.1305 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.11 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ Yeomans, Donald K., "724 Hapag", JPL Small-Body Database Browser (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), retrieved 2013-03-30.
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pilcher, Frederick (April 2012), "Rotation Period Determinations for 31 Euphrosyne, 65 Cybele, 154 Bertha 177 Irma, 200 Dynamene, 724 Hapag, 880 Herba, and 1470 Carla", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 39 (2): 57–60, Bibcode:2012MPBu...39...57P.
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 70.
    4. ↑ Nakano, S. et al. (1988), Green, D. W. E., ed., "(724) Hapag = 1988 VG2", IAU Circular (4676): 1, Bibcode:1988IAUC.4676....1N.

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