Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

(26471) Tracybecker

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 21 June 2016

--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, Hungaria


orbital data, primary (osculating elements) [JPL] :
semimajor axis a: 1.917977412 AU
orbital period P: 2.656277445 yr
(= 970.2053366 d)
eccentricity e: 0.154476722
perihelion distance q: 1.62169455 AU
aphelion distance Q: 2.214260275 AU
inclination i: 19.6937661°
argument of perihelion ω: 58.829546°
ascending node Ω: 268.761803°
mean anomaly M: 286.265853°
perihelion passage TP: 2014 Dec 07.71461
Epoch: 2014 May 23
data arc: 1951-2013 (716 obs.)
Earth MOID: 0.668512 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 3.842


orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: 18 km [*E]
separation/primary radius as/rp:6.3 [*E]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.025 [*E]
orbital period Ps: 1.637 ± 0.0004 d [W10c]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: ?

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 13.2 [MPC]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 6.05 ± 0.44 km [U11a]
geometric albedo: 0.304 ± 0.046 [U11a]
color index U-B: ?
color index B-V: ?
taxonomic type: ?
mass m: ?
density ρ: (1.6 g/cm3) [*A]
Hill radius rH: 730 km [*E]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 5.69 ± 0.41 km [*D]
rotation period RPp: 2.687 ± 0.000 h [W10c]
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: 0.22 [W09e]
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: 2.05 ± 0.19 km [*D]
diameter ratio ds/dp: 0.36 ± 0.02 [W10c]
component mag. difference ΔM: 2.2 ± 0.1 [*D]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- (26471) Tracybecker --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 2000 Jan 08 from Socorro, New Mexico, USA by LINEAR. Alternate designation(s): 2000 AS152, 1951 YZ1. Linked to prediscovery observations from 1951 Dec 27. Permanent number assigned 2001 Jul 05.

Companion discovered 2009 Jul 13 by B. D. Warner, A. W. Harris, and D. Pray using lightcurve observations from Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; Space Science Institute, La Canada, California, USA; Carbuncle Hill Observatory, West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA. Announced 2009 Jul 20 [W09e].

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