Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

(11264) Claudiomaccone

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: 2.577566405 AU
orbital period P: 4.138309770 yr
(= 1511.517643 d)
eccentricity e: 0.233759053
perihelion distance q: 1.97503692 AU
aphelion distance Q: 3.180095887 AU
inclination i: 3.523643°
argument of perihelion ω: 57.985088°
ascending node Ω: 11.142000°
mean anomaly M: 95.664599°
perihelion passage TP: 2013 Apr 16.33686
Epoch: 2014 May 23
data arc: 1950-2014 (821 obs.)
Earth MOID: 0.990903 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 3.385


orbital data, secondary:
binary dynamical type:A [P07f]
semimajor axis as: 6 km [K07b]
separation/primary radius as/rp:3.0 [*D]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.011 [*D]
orbital period Ps: 0.6296 ± 0.0004 d [K07b]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: 1.02 [P07f]

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 14.1 [MPC]
14.30 [K07b]
slope parameter G: 0.10 [K07b]
effective diameter dE: 4.2 km [K07b]
geometric albedo: 0.2 [K07b]
color index U-B: ?
color index B-V: ?
color index V-R:0.52 ± 0.035 [K07b]
taxonomic type: ?
mass m: 4.14x1013 kg [*D]
density ρ: >1.2 g/cm3[K07b]
Hill radius rH: 560 km [*D]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: <4 km [K07b]
rotation period RPp: 3.1872 ± 0.0006 h [K07b]
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: 0.12 [P06b]
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: >1.24 km [K07b]
diameter ratio ds/dp: >0.31 [K07b]
component mag. difference ΔM: <2.5 [*D]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- (11264) Claudiomaccone --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 1979 Oct 16 from Nauchnyj, Crimea, Ukraine, USSR by N. S. Chernykh. Alternate designation(s): 1979 UC4, 1989 EC10, 1991 PD14. Linked to prediscovery observations from 1950 Aug 14. Permanent number assigned 1999 Aug 31.

Named 2001 Sep 02 for Claudio Maccone (1948-) [MPC43382].

Companion discovered 2005 Nov 04 using lightcurve observations. Announced 2005 Dec .

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