1204 Renzia

Renzia
Discovery
Discovered by K. Reinmuth
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date 6 October 1931
Designations
MPC designation (1204) Renzia
1931 TE
Mars-crossing[1]
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 84.54 yr (30878 days)
Aphelion 2.9279025 AU (438.00798 Gm)
Perihelion 1.5987572 AU (239.17067 Gm)
2.263330 AU (338.5893 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.2936261
3.41 yr (1243.7 d)
354.37740°
0° 17m 22.041s / day
Inclination 1.879755°
7.581273°
313.77273°
Earth MOID 0.586333 AU (87.7142 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.39644 AU (358.502 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.559
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 11–25 km[2]
7.885 h (0.3285 d)
7.885 h[1]
S[1]
11.9[1]

    1204 Renzia (1931 TE) is an 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. 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1204 Renzia (1931 TE)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
    2. ↑ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
    3. ↑ 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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