11824 Alpaidze
| Discovery [1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | L. Chernykh |
| Discovery site | CrAO (Nauchnyj) |
| Discovery date | 16 September 1982 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 11824 Alpaidze |
Named after |
Galaktion Alpaidze (Plesetsk Cosmodrome)[2] |
| 1982 SO5 · 1978 WV1 | |
| main-belt · (middle) [3] | |
| Orbital characteristics [1] | |
| Epoch 27 June 2015 (JD 2457200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 36.47 yr (13,321 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.4441 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.8270 AU |
| 2.6356 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.3067 |
| 4.28 yr (1,563 days) | |
| 234.74° | |
| Inclination | 1.7274° |
| 1.3788° | |
| 353.06° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 4.83 km (calculated)[3] |
|
4.1157 h[3] 4.1146±0.0021 h[4] | |
| 0.10 (assumed)[3] | |
| S [3] | |
| 14.7[1] | |
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11824 Alpaidze, provisional designation 1982 SO5, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, about 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 September 1982, by Russian female astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.[2]
The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–3.4 AU once every 4 years and 3 months (1,563 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.31 and is tilted by 2 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 4.1 hours.[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a low albedo of 0.10, which is rather untypical for a stony asteroid.[3]
The minor planet is named after Gregorian-born, Soviet Lieutenant General Galaktion Alpaidze (1916–2006), Hero of the Soviet Union and laureate of the USSR State Prize, who was the chief of the cosmodrome in Plesetsk from 1963 to 1975. Under his leadership the cosmodrome was developed for testing space vehicles, and it became the most active launch site in the world.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 11824 Alpaidze (1982 SO5)" (2015-05-20 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved December 2015.
- 1 2 3 "11824 Alpaidze (1982 SO5)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved December 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (11824) Alpaidze". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved December 2015.
- 1 2 Waszczak, Adam; Chang, Chan-Kao; Ofek, Eran O.; Laher, Russ; Masci, Frank; Levitan, David; et al. (September 2015). "Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry". The Astronomical Journal 150 (3): 35. arXiv:1504.04041. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...75W. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/75. Retrieved December 2015.
External links
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000) – Minor Planet Center
- 11824 Alpaidze at the JPL Small-Body Database
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