Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(24495)
Degroff
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
9 October 2021
--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: |
2.1712762226 AU
|
orbital period P: |
3.199490441 yr (= 1168.6138835 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.360820359
|
perihelion distance q: |
1.387835557 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.9547168877 AU
|
inclination i: |
29.7354434°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
133.110302°
|
ascending node Ω: |
75.3218974°
|
mean anomaly M: |
106.3990801°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2020 Jul 20.612661
|
Epoch: |
2021 Jul 01
|
data arc: |
1953-2021
(1418 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.46046 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.443
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
?
|
orbital period Ps: |
?
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
14.94
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
3.4
km [*E]
|
geometric albedo: |
(0.16
) [*A]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
310 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
2.83
km [A17c]
|
axial ratios a/b, b/c: | 1.6, ? [S17c] |
rotation period RPp: |
24.083
± 0.005
h [S17c]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.58
± 0.02
[S17c]
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
?
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
?
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
?
|
rotation period RPs: |
2.7375
± 0.0001
h [S17c]
|
|
|
--
(24495) Degroff
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2001 Jan 02
from
Anderson Mesa Station, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
by
LONEOS Program.
Alternate designation(s):
2001 AV1
.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1953 Feb 14.
Permanent number assigned 2001 Apr 08.
Named 2017 Dec 03 for Bill DeGroff (1956-) [MPC107739].
Companion discovered
2017 May 04
by R. D. Stephens, B. D. Warner, A. Aznar Macias, and V. Benishek
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2017 Sep [S17c].
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2017-2019, 2021
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
9 October 2021.
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