4045 Lowengrub

Lowengrub
Discovery
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program)
Discovery site Goethe Link Obs.
Discovery date 9 September 1953
Designations
MPC designation (4045) Lowengrub
1953 RG
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 24400 days (66.80 yr)
Aphelion 3.5608 AU (532.69 Gm)
Perihelion 2.8984 AU (433.59 Gm)
3.2296 AU (483.14 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.10255
5.80 yr (2119.9 d)
182.49°
0° 10m 11.352s / day
Inclination 21.327°
224.306°
245.546°
Earth MOID 1.98071 AU (296.310 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.87797 AU (280.940 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.071
Physical characteristics
9.764 h (0.4068 d)
11.1

    4045 Lowengrub (1953 RG) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on 9 September 1953, by Indiana University during its Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.

    Photometric observations of this asteroid reported in 1996 show a rotation period of 9.764 ± 0.003 hours.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ "4045 Lowengrub (1953 RG)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
    2. ↑ Angeli, C. A.; Barucci, M. A. (March 1996), "CCD observations: rotational properties of 13 small asteroids", Planetary and Space Science, 44: 181–186, Bibcode:1996P&SS...44..181A, doi:10.1016/0032-0633(95)00124-7.


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