16879 Campai

Asteroid April 2018 yes 16879 Campai #D6D6D6 24 January 1998 A. BoattiniM. Tombelli Pistoia Mountains Obs. (16879) Campai 1998 BH 10 Paolo Campai(Italian amateur astronomer) main-belt(middle)Witt 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) 0 39.78 yr (14,529 d) 2.8229 AU 2.6938 AU 2.7584 AU 0.0234 4.58 yr (1,673 d) 349.41° 0.2151 ms / day 7.1221° 47.289° 230.77° 10.61 km (calculated) 314.2468 4.9149 h 0.057 (assumed) SC (assumed) 12.97 0.4613.150 0.00513.313.6 16879 Campai (provisional designation 1998 BH 10) is a stony Witt asteroid and slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 km mi off 1 us in diameter. The S-type asteroid was discovered on 24 January 1998, by Italian astronomers Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese, Tuscany, central Italy. It was named for Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Campai. Orbit and classification Campai is a member of the Witt family (535), a large family of (predominantly) stony asteroids with more than 1,600 known members. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.7–2.8 AU once every 4 years and 7 months (1,673 days; semi-major axis of 2.76 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was obtained at Siding Spring Observatory in July 1977, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 22 years prior to its discovery. Physical characteristics Campai has been characterized as a common, stony S-type asteroid, in line with the overall spectral type for members of the Witt family.23 Slow rotator In October 2010, a rotational lightcurve of Campai was obtained from photometric observations made at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. It rendered an exceptionally long period of 314.2468 4.9149 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.68 magnitude (U=2). While the result is based on less than full coverage, and may be refined by future observations, Campai is one of the slowest rotating asteroids known to exist. Diameter and albedo The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link calculates a diameter of 10.5 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.6 and an assumed standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057. Naming This minor planet was named for Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Campai (born 1957) from Florence, who is specialized in teaching and astrophotography. Both discoverers made his acquaintance near Florence on a night in 1985, while observing comet 1P/Halley and α Phoenicis. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 (M.P.C. 49281). References 30em 2017-05-01 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 16879 Campai (1998 BH10) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016879 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 26 June 2017 Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (16879) Campai [2.76, 0.02, 7.1] Springer Berlin Heidelberg 102 2006 978-3-540-34360-8 10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5_1067 16879 Campai (1998 BH10) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=16879 22 March 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 17 May 2016 Asteroid 16879 Campai – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0 Small Bodies Data Ferret https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=16879+Campai#Asteroid%2016879%20CampaiEAR-A-VARGBDET-5-NESVORNYFAM-V3.0 27 October 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20200820094529/https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=16879+Campai#Asteroid%2016879%20CampaiEAR-A-VARGBDET-5-NESVORNYFAM-V3.0 20 August 2020 dead D. Nesvorný M. Broz V. Carruba December 2014 Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families Asteroids IV 297–321 2015aste.book..297N 10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816532131-ch016 1502.01628 9780816532131 16879 17 May 2016 6 Adam Waszczak Chan-Kao Chang Eran O. Ofek Russ Laher Frank Masci David Levitan Jason Surace Yu-Chi Cheng Wing-Huen Ip Daisuke Kinoshita George Helou Thomas A. Prince Shrinivas Kulkarni September 2015 Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry The Astronomical Journal 150 3 35 2015AJ....150...75W 10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/75 1504.04041 6 Peter Veres Robert Jedicke Alan Fitzsimmons Larry Denneau Mikael Granvik Bryce Bolin Serge Chastel Richard J. Wainscoat William S. Burgett Kenneth C. Chambers Heather Flewelling Nick Kaiser Eugen A. Magnier Jeff S. Morgan Paul A. Price John L. Tonry Christopher Waters November 2015 Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results Icarus 261 34–47 2015Icar..261...34V 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007 1506.00762 External links 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/20241208174218/http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html 8 December 2024 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (15001)-(20000) – Minor Planet Center 16879 16878 Tombickler 16879 016879 Category:Discoveries by Andrea Boattini Category:Discoveries by Maura Tombelli Category:Named minor planets 016879 19980124