1499 Pori

Pori
Discovery
Discovered by Y. Väisälä
Discovery site Turku
Discovery date October 16, 1938
Designations
MPC designation 1499
Named after
 Pori
1938 UF
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion 3.1628733
Perihelion 2.1761169
Eccentricity 0.1848208
1593.0966520
34.30953
Inclination 12.20542
239.88986
73.47937
Physical characteristics
11.2

    1499 Pori (1938 UF) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1938, by Y. Väisälä at Turku,[1] and is named after the city of Pori, Finland.

    Photometric observations made in 2003 at the Santana Observatory in Rancho Cucamonga, California, give a synodic rotation period of 8.63 ± 0.005 hours. The light curve shows a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.04 in magnitude.[1]

    References

    1. 1 2 Stephens, Robert D. (March 2004), "Photometry of 683 Lanzia, 1101 Clematis, 1499 Pori, 1507 Vaasa, and 3893 DeLaeter", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 31 (1), pp. 4–6, Bibcode:2004MPBu...31....4S.

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