Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

(1830) Pogson

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 21 September 2014

--Orbital and physical data--

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dynamical type, primary: main belt asteroid


orbital data, primary (osculating elements) [JPL] :
semimajor axis a: 2.188591450 AU
orbital period P: 3.237838999 yr
(= 1182.6206940 d)
eccentricity e: 0.055932424
perihelion distance q: 2.06617823 AU
aphelion distance Q: 2.311004674 AU
inclination i: 3.9542790°
argument of perihelion ω: 335.241532°
ascending node Ω: 147.472576°
mean anomaly M: 154.675622°
perihelion passage TP: 2012 Dec 30.8816
Epoch: 2014 May 23
data arc: 1926-2013 (1936 obs.)
Earth MOID: 1.08224 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 3.669


orbital data, secondary:
binary dynamical type:A [M09a]
semimajor axis as: 18 km [*E]
separation/primary radius as/rp:4.6 [*E]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.014 [*E]
orbital period Ps: 1.01 ± 0.0002 d [H07d]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: 1.2 [M09a]

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 12.45 [MPC]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 8.28 ± 0.12 km [M11b]
geometric albedo: 0.236 ± 0.04 [M11b]
color index U-B: 0.5 [JPL]
color index B-V: 0.91 [JPL]
taxonomic type: S (SMASSII) [JPL]
S (Tholen) [JPL]
mass m: ?
density ρ: (1.6 g/cm3) [*A]
Hill radius rH: 1300 km [*E]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 7.89 ± 0.11 km [*D]
rotation period RPp: 2.57 ± 0.000 h [H07d]
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: 0.12 [H07d]
amplitude in mag., mutual events ΔM:0.15 ±0.07 [H07d]
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: 2.52 km [*D]
diameter ratio ds/dp: >0.32 [H07d]
component mag. difference ΔM: <2.5 [*D]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- (1830) Pogson --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 1968 Apr 17 from Zimmerwald, Switzerland by P. Wild. Alternate designation(s): 1968 HA, 1926 GW, 1929 EE, 1942 EC1, 1945 BB, 1953 RE1, 1955 FX, 1955 GE, 1961 AC, 1969 QM, 1971 BJ, 1972 NA1, 1972 OC, 1972 OD. Linked to prediscovery observations from 1926 Apr 14. Permanent number assigned -.

Named - for Norman Robert Pogson (1829-1891) [MPC4236].

Companion discovered 2007 Apr 18 by D. Higgins, P. Pravec P. Kusnirak, J. Oey, and D. Pray using lightcurve observations from Canberra, Australia; Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic; Leura, New South Wales, Australia; Carbuncle Hill Observatory, Greene, Rhode Island, USA. Announced 2007 May 10 [H07d].

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