Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(3378)
Susanvictoria
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
23 September 2014
--Orbital and physical data--
(See this page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, see this link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
dynamical type, primary:
main belt asteroid
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
2.3163694295 AU
|
orbital period P: |
3.525427087 yr (= 1287.686563 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.09227026
|
perihelion distance q: |
2.10263742 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.5301014391 AU
|
inclination i: |
8.0756409°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
91.692597°
|
ascending node Ω: |
335.966076°
|
mean anomaly M: |
318.853835°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2018 Jan 29.176012
|
Epoch: |
2017 Sep 04
|
data arc: |
1922-2017
(1620 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
1.13515 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.562
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
11
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 3.4 [*D] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.010 [*D] |
orbital period Ps: |
0.7138
± 0.0004
d [P17g]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
13.5
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
6.64
± 0.18
km [M**]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.175
± 0.024
[M**]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
1100 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
6.46
km [*D]
|
rotation period RPp: |
2.5621
± 0.0001
h [P17g]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.1
[P17g]
|
amplitude in mag., mutual events ΔM: | 0.095 ±0.035 [P17g] |
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
>1.55
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
>0.24
[P17g]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
<3.1
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(3378) Susanvictoria
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1922 Nov 25
from
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA
by
G. Van Biesbroeck.
Alternate designation(s):
A922 WB,
1969 AK, 1978 TF1.
Permanent number assigned 1986 Jan 26.
Named 1989 Apr 21 for Susan Titus and Victoria Van Biesbroeck Streeter [MPC014481].
Companion discovered
2017 Oct 17
by D. Pray, P. Pravec, V. Benishek, R. Montaigut, and A. Leroy
using
lightcurve
observations from Sugarloaf Mountain Observatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA; Sopot Observatory, Serbia; OPERA Observatory, France.
Announced
2017 Dec 08 [P17g].
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©
2017, 2018
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
23 September 2018.
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