15017 Cuppy

Main-belt asteroid October 2019 yes 15017 Cuppy #D6D6D6 Cuppy Summed and Flat.jpg Cuppy as viewed from Auburn, Indiana, using a 40.5 cm RCOS telescope in July 2004 line-height: 1.3em; 22 September 1998 LONEOS Anderson Mesa Stn. (15017) Cuppy 1998 SS 25 Will Cuppy(American humorist) main-belt(inner)Flora 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 25.30 yr (9,242 days) 2.7011 AU 1.9517 AU 2.3264 AU 0.1611 3.55 yr (1,296 days) 94.456° 0.2778 ms / day 6.2109° 63.826° 347.85° 1.795 0.2262 km (estimated at 0.25) 0.500 0.219 15.6 15017 Cuppy (provisional designation 1998 SS 25) is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 September 1998, by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) at its Anderson Mesa Station, Arizona, United States. The asteroid was named for American humorist Will Cuppy. Orbit and classification Cuppy orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,296 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins 7 years prior to its official discovery observation, with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in October 1991. Physical characteristics According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Cuppy measures 1.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.50. This is in line with a generic absolute magnitude-to-diameter conversion, which gives a diameter of approximately 2 kilometers for an absolute magnitude of 15.6 and an assumed albedo of 0.2 to 0.25, which is typical for stony asteroids of the inner asteroid belt. As of 2017, Cuppy's composition, rotation period and shape remain unknown. Naming This minor planet was named in memory of American literary critic and humorist, Will Cuppy (1884–1949). He is known for his satirical books The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, How to Attract the Wombat, How to Become Extinct and How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes. The name was proposed by M. Walter. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 2003 (M.P.C. 49675). References 30em 2017-02-01 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 15017 Cuppy (1998 SS25) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015017 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 5 July 2017 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (15017) Cuppy, Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005 Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 89–90 2006 978-3-540-34361-5 10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5_910 (15017) Cuppy [2.33, 0.16, 6.2] 15017 Cuppy (1998 SS25) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=15017 5 April 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 20 May 2016 Absolute Magnitude (H) NASA/JPL http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/h.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010302182040/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/h.html 2 March 2001 5 April 2016 6 Joseph R. Masiero A. K. Mainzer T. Grav J. M. Bauer R. M. Cutri J. Dailey P. R. M. Eisenhardt R. S. McMillan T. B. Spahr M. F. Skrutskie D. Tholen R. G. Walker E. L. Wright E. DeBaun D. Elsbury T. IV Gautier S. Gomillion A. Wilkins November 2011 Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE. I. Preliminary Albedos and Diameters http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2011ApJ...741...68M The Astrophysical Journal 741 2 20 2011ApJ...741...68M 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/68 1109.4096 3 December 2016 15017 25 June 2017 External links Photographic observations of 15017 Cuppy, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info https://web.archive.org/web/20171216050541/http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html 16 December 2017 ) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR https://web.archive.org/web/20160729213840/http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html 29 July 2016 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (15001)-(20000) – Minor Planet Center 15017 15017 015017 015017 Category:Named minor planets 19980922