Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(3703)
Volkonskaya
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
21 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: |
2.331384004 AU
|
orbital period P: |
3.559827231 yr (= 1300.226896 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.134376452
|
perihelion distance q: |
2.01810089 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.644667116 AU
|
inclination i: |
6.7387182°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
151.860432°
|
ascending node Ω: |
172.953767°
|
mean anomaly M: |
17.858570°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2014 Mar 19.49946
|
Epoch: |
2014 May 23
|
data arc: |
1953-2013
(1168 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
1.00827 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.549
|
orbital data, secondary:
binary dynamical type: | A [M09a] |
semimajor axis as: |
7.8
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 4.5 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.014 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
1
d [P06b]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
1.06
[M09a]
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
14
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
3.73
± 0.11
km [M11b]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.242
± 0.076
[M11b]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
550 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
3.46
± 0.1
km [*D]
|
rotation period RPp: |
3.235
h [P06b]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.22
[P06b]
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
1.39
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.4
[P06b]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
2.0
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(3703) Volkonskaya
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1978 Aug 09
from
Nauchnyj, Crimea, Ukraine, USSR
by
L. I. Chernykh.
Alternate designation(s):
1978 PU3,
1977 EK6.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1953 Aug 15.
Permanent number assigned 1987 Oct 07.
Named 1988 Sep 25 for Mariya Nikolaevna Volkonskaya (1805-1865) [MPC13609].
Companion discovered
-
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2005 Dec .
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©
2005-2006, 2014
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
21 September 2014.
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