Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(7002)
Bronshten
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
30 December 2018
--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:
Mars crossing asteroid
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
2.3575258133 AU
|
orbital period P: |
3.619800911 yr (= 1322.1572533 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.332164516
|
perihelion distance q: |
1.57443939 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
3.1406122345 AU
|
inclination i: |
4.5816271°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
144.055308°
|
ascending node Ω: |
193.214363°
|
mean anomaly M: |
57.0357612°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2018 Sep 29.527096
|
Epoch: |
2019 Apr 27
|
data arc: |
1971-2018
(1133 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.567588 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.473
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
4.5
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 3.0 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.008 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
0.5551
± 0.0001
d [W19a]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
14.8
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
3.12
km [M**]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.218
[M**]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
560 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
3.03
km [*D]
|
rotation period RPp: |
2.67025
± 0.00007
h [W19a]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.13
[W19a]
|
amplitude in mag., mutual events ΔM: | 0.085 ±0.025 [W19a] |
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
>0.73
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
>0.24
± 0.02
[W19a]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
<3.1
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(7002) Bronshten
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1971 Jul 26
from
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Ukraine, USSR
by
N. S. Chernykh.
Alternate designation(s):
1971 OV,
1971 QM, 1982 SL4.
Permanent number assigned 1996 Jun 01.
Named 2000 Jan 24 for Vitalij Aleksandrovich Bronshten (1918-) [MPC038196].
Companion discovered
2018 Jul 05
by B. D. Warner and R. D. Stephens
using
lightcurve
observations from CS3, Landers, California, USA.
Announced
2018 Dec [W19a].
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©
2018
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
30 December 2018.
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