Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

(4765) Wasserburg

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, Hungaria


orbital data, primary (osculating elements) [JPL] :
semimajor axis a: 1.945408318 AU
orbital period P: 2.713465817 yr
(= 991.0933895 d)
eccentricity e: 0.060073422
perihelion distance q: 1.82854098 AU
aphelion distance Q: 2.062275652 AU
inclination i: 23.7120905°
argument of perihelion ω: 108.426002°
ascending node Ω: 76.570567°
mean anomaly M: 161.523822°
perihelion passage TP: 2013 Mar 04.3189
Epoch: 2014 May 23
data arc: 1983-2013 (708 obs.)
Earth MOID: 0.875406 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 3.792


orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: 2.9 km [*E]
separation/primary radius as/rp:3.3 [*E]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.012 [*E]
orbital period Ps: 0.6654 ± 0.0008 d [W13i]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: ?

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 13.7 [MPC]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 1.78 ± 0.48 km [M11b]
geometric albedo: 1 ± 0.087 [M11b]
color index U-B: ?
color index B-V: ?
taxonomic type: ?
mass m: ?
density ρ: (1.6 g/cm3) [*A]
Hill radius rH: 250 km [*E]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 1.76 ± 0.48 km [*D]
rotation period RPp: 3.6231 ± 0.0005 h [W13i]
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: 0.17 ± 0.01 [W13i]
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: 0.28 ± 0.08 km [*D]
diameter ratio ds/dp: >0.16 ± 0.02 [W13i]
component mag. difference ΔM: <4.0 ± 0.3 [*D]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- (4765) Wasserburg --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 1986 May 05 from Palomar Observatory, California, USA by C. S. Shoemaker. Alternate designation(s): 1986 JN1, 1983 EA1, 1986 LF. Linked to prediscovery observations from 1983 Mar 13. Permanent number assigned 1991 Mar 30.

Named 1991 Jun 27 for Gerald J. Wasserburg (1927-) [MPC18464].

Companion discovered 2013 Apr 23 by B. D. Warner and R. D. Stephens using lightcurve observations. Announced 2013 Sep [W13i].

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