4332 Milton

Milton
Discovery
Discovered by	Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Discovery site	Palomar
Discovery date	5 September 1983
Designations
MPC designation	(4332) Milton
Alternative designations	1983 RC
Orbital characteristics^[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	29831 days (81.67 yr)
Aphelion	3.3990585 AU (508.49191 Gm)
Perihelion	1.7702583 AU (264.82687 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.584658 AU (386.6593 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.3150900
Orbital period	4.16 yr (1517.8 d)
Mean anomaly	278.11152°
Mean motion	0° 14^m 13.89^s / day
Inclination	19.16913°
Longitude of ascending node	166.00170°
Argument of perihelion	198.44808°
Earth MOID	0.772529 AU (115.5687 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	2.06423 AU (308.804 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.277
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	5.77 ± 0.3 km
Rotation period	3.2978 h (0.13741 d)
Geometric albedo	0.2306 ± 0.028
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.8

4332 Milton (1983 RC) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 5 September 1983 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar and named for astrogeologist Daniel J. Milton (28 July 1934 -).

Photometric observations during 2008 showed a rotation period of 3.2978 ± 0.0003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.30 ± 0.05 in magnitude.^[2]

References

↑ "4332 Milton (1983 RC)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
↑ Oey, Julian (October 2009), "Lightcurve Analysis of Asteroids from Leura and Kingsgrove Observatory in the Second Half of 2008", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 36 (4): 162–164, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36..162O

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