10245 Inselsberg

Main-belt asteroid April 2018 yes 10245 Inselsberg #D6D6D6 C. J. van HoutenI. van Houten-G.T. Gehrels Palomar Obs. 24 September 1960 (10245) Inselsberg 6071 P-L1995 DH 2 Großer Inselsberg(German mountain) main-belt(middle)Gefion 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) 0 63.75 yr (23,284 d) 3.0301 AU 2.5332 AU 2.7816 AU 0.0893 4.64 yr (1,695 d) 325.09° 0.2125 ms / day 8.9010° 196.52° 341.87° 6.9 km (est. at 0.20) 0.20 (family estimate) 13.2 10245 Inselsberg, provisional designation 6071 P-L, is a Gefion asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 km mi off 1 us in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The likely S-type asteroid was named for the German mountain Großer Inselsberg. Orbit and classification Inselsberg is a member of the Gefion family (516), a large intermediate belt family, named after 1272 Gefion It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.5–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,695 days; semi-major axis of 2.78 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 9° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in May 1954, or 6 years prior to its official discovery observation. Palomar–Leiden survey The survey designation "P-L" stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory where astrometry was carried out. The trio are credited with the discovery of several thousand asteroid discoveries. Physical characteristics As a member of the Gefion family, Inselsberg is likely a stony S-type asteroid.23 It has an absolute magnitude of 13.2. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of Inselsberg has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown. Diameter and albedo Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, Inselsberg measures 6.9 kilometers in diameter for an assumed stony albedo of 0.20, derived from the Gefion family's standard albedo, and a measured absolute magnitude of 13.2. According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Inselsberg measures kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo. Naming This minor planet was named after Großer Inselsberg, a mountain with an altitude of 916.5 m on located in the Thuringian Forest in Thuringia, Germany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 (M.P.C. 48390). References 30em 2018-02-25 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 10245 Inselsberg (6071 P-L) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2010245 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 30 April 2018 10245 Inselsberg (6071 P-L) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=10245 30 April 2018 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 30 April 2018 Asteroid Size Estimator CNEOS NASA/JPL https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/ast_size_est.html 12 November 2017 Asteroid 10245 Inselsberg – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0 Small Bodies Data Ferret https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=10245+Inselsberg#Asteroid%2010245%20InselsbergEAR-A-VARGBDET-5-NESVORNYFAM-V3.0 27 October 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20200819062700/https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=10245+Inselsberg#Asteroid%2010245%20InselsbergEAR-A-VARGBDET-5-NESVORNYFAM-V3.0 19 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 Minor Planet Discoverers Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html 2018 30 April 2018 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/20160729213840/http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html 29 July 2016 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000) – Minor Planet Center 10245 10244 Thüringer Wald 10245 10246 Frankenwald 010245 Category:Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Category:Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Category:Discoveries by Tom Gehrels 6071 Category:Named minor planets 19600924