11264 Claudiomaccone
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh |
| Discovery date | October 16, 1979 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Claudio Maccone |
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1979 UC4; 1989 EC10; 1991 PD14 | |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch November 26, 2005 (JD 2453700.5) | |
| Aphelion | 475.426 Gm (3.178 AU) |
| Perihelion | 296.521 Gm (1.982 AU) |
| 385.973 Gm (2.580 AU) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.232 |
| 1513.722 d (4.14 a) | |
Average orbital speed | 18.29 km/s |
| 79.036° | |
| Inclination | 3.536° |
| 11.507° | |
| 56.947° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | ~4 km |
| Mass | ?×10? kg |
Mean density | ? g/cm³ |
| ? m/s² | |
| ? km/s | |
| 0.1328 d (3.1872 h) | |
| Albedo | 0.10 |
| Temperature | ~173 K |
Spectral type | ? |
| 13.9 | |
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11264 Claudiomaccone is a main-belt binary asteroid.[1] It was discovered in 1979 by Nikolai Chernykh and is named after the Italian astronomer Claudio Maccone.
Claudiomaccone comes closer to Mars than to the other planets, sometimes drawing within 70 Gm (0.47 AU) of the Red Planet. In 2096 it makes a very rare approach to 65 Gm.
Moon
A natural satellite was discovered from analysis of light curve observations dating back to 2003, and reported in 2005. Beyond the period of 15.11 h and a lower bound of 1.2 km on its diameter, nothing is known. The provisional designation is S/2003 (11264) 1.[1]
References
- Pravec, P., et al., 2006, Photometric survey of binary near-Earth asteroids, Icarus, Vol. 181, pp. 63–93
- calculations by SOLEX
- 1 2 Johnston, Robert. "(11264) Claudiomaccone". johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
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