1988 Delores
| Discovery [1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Indiana Asteroid Program |
| Discovery site | Goethe Link Obs. |
| Discovery date | 28 September 1952 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1988 Delores |
Named after |
Delores Owings (Indiana University)[2] |
|
1952 SV · 1951 GF1 1952 UU · 1971 UE 1973 GH | |
| main-belt · Flora [3] | |
| Orbital characteristics [1] | |
| Epoch 27 June 2015 (JD 2457200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 63.13 yr (23,057 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.3757 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.9319 AU |
| 2.1538 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1030 |
| 3.16 yr (1,155 days) | |
| 337.44° | |
| Inclination | 4.2524° |
| 106.40° | |
| 235.04° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 4.60 km (calculated)[3] |
| 88.1521 h[4] | |
| 0.24 (assumed)[3] | |
| S [3] | |
| 13.6[1] | |
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1988 Delores, provisional designation 1952 SV, is a stony asteroid and slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana on 28 September 28, 1952.[5]
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 2 months (1,155 days). Its orbit is tilted by 4 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.10. It has a long rotation period of 88 hours.[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an albedo of 0.24, a typical value for stony asteroids.[3]
It was named after Delores Owings, collaborator of Tom Gehrels and supervisor of position measurements on photographic plates in the minor planet program of Indiana University. The naming was proposed by the Director of the Minor Planet Center, Paul Herget.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1988 Delores (1952 SV)" (2015-11-14 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved December 2015.
- 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1988) Delores. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 161. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved October 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "LCDB Data for (1988) Delores". 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.
- ↑ "1988 Delores (1952 SV)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved October 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 (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 1988 Delores at the JPL Small-Body Database
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