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1087 Arabis
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Main-belt asteroid
October 2019
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1087 Arabis
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File:1087Arabis (Lightcurve Inversion).png
Lightcurve-based 3D-model of Arabis
K. Reinmuth
Heidelberg Obs.
2 September 1927
(1087) Arabis
1927 RD1973 LBA917 UE
ˈ ær ə b ᵻ sarabis
Arabis (flowering plant)
main-belt(outer)Eos
4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
0
89.40 yr (32,655 days)
3.2984 AU
2.7300 AU
3.0142 AU
0.0943
5.23 yr (1,911 days)
12.959°
0.1883 ms / day
10.061°
30.425°
25.793°
31.67 km (derived)31.75 2.5 km36.97 0.50 km37.498 0.493 km45.625 0.588 km47.98 0.80 km
5.794 h5.794995 0.000002 hHanus-2016d5.79500 0.00001 hHanus-2017c5.79501 0.00005 h5.797 0.001 h
0.098 0.0150.1031 0.01500.171 0.0060.2137 (derived)0.2248 0.040
Tholen SB–V 0.823U–B 0.370
9.739.75 0.269.79
1087 Arabis ˈ ær ə b ᵻ s is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 35 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory in 1927 and assigned the provisional designation 1927 RD. The asteroid was named after the flowering plant Arabis (rockcress).
Discovery
Arabis was officially discovered on 2 September 1927, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. On the same night, it was independently discovered by Soviet-Russian astronomers Sergey Belyavsky and Nikolaj Ivanov at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula. The Minor Planet Center does not acknowledge these independent discoverers.
The asteroid was first identified as A917 UE at the Simeiz Observatory in October 1917, almost 10 years prior to its official discovery observation at Heidelberg.
Orbit and classification
Arabis is a member the Eos family (606), the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 known asteroids.23 It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,911 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Heidelberg.
Physical characteristics
In the Tholen classification, Arabis is a common S-type asteroid.
Rotation period
During the early 1990s, a rotational lightcurve was obtained in a photometric survey of small asteroids by European astronomers at the Chilean La Silla Observatory using the ESO 1-metre telescope. In November 2006, another lightcurve of Arabis was obtained by astronomers at the Oakley Observatory in Indiana, United States. Lightcurve analysis gave two well-defined rotation periods of 5.794 and 5.797 hours with a brightness variation of 0.14 and 0.40 magnitude, respectively (U=3/3).
Spin axis
Between 2011 and 2017, an international collaboration modeled three lightcurves with a period of 5.794995, 5.79500 and 5.79501 hours, respectively.Hanus-2016dHanus-2017c The more recent studies also determined two spin axis of (155.0°, 25.0°) and (331.0°, 5.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β).Hanus-2016dHanus-2017c
Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Arabis measures between 31.75 and 47.98 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.098 and 0.2248.
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2137 and a diameter of 31.67 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.79.
Naming
This minor planet was named after the flowering plant Arabis (rockcress), a genus of herbs of the brassicaceae (known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family). The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (H 102).
Reinmuth's flowers
Due to his many discoveries, Karl Reinmuth submitted a large list of 66 newly named asteroids in the early 1930s. The list covered his discoveries with numbers between 1009 (1009) and 1200 (1200). This list also contained a sequence of 28 asteroids, starting with 1054 Forsytia, that were all named after plants, in particular flowering plants (also see list of minor planets named after animals and plants).
Notes
Hanus-2016d Hanus (2016d) publication not indexed in ADS. Summary figures for (1087) Arabis at LCDB
Hanus-2017c Hanus (2017c) not yet indexed in ADS. Summary figures for (1087) Arabis at LCDB
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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 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
1087
1086 Nata 1087 1088 Mitaka
001087
Category:Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
Category:Named minor planets
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