1204 Renzia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | K. Reinmuth |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | October 6, 1931 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1204 |
| 1931 TE | |
| Mars-crossing[1] | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 2.9271525 |
| Perihelion | 1.5994169 |
| Eccentricity | 0.2933205 |
| 1243.6758650 | |
| 206.66379 | |
| Inclination | 1.87908 |
| 7.70871 | |
| 313.26493 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 11–25 km[2] |
Sidereal rotation period | 7.885 h[1] |
Spectral type | S[1] |
| 11.9[1] | |
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1204 Renzia (1931 TE) is a 11–25 km Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 6, 1931, by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. In 1985, Duncan Steel estimated that this Mars-crossing asteroid had a better chance than average of impacting into Mars.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1204 Renzia (1931 TE)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- ↑ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ Steel, Duncan (1985). "Collisions in the solar systems. II - Asteroid impacts upon Mars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 215: 369–381. Bibcode:1985MNRAS.215..369S. doi:10.1093/mnras/215.3.369.
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