1683 Castafiore

Main-belt asteroid the character in The Adventures of Tintin Bianca Castafiore October 2019 yes 1683 Castafiore #D6D6D6 001683-asteroid shape model (1683) Castafiore.png Shape model of Castafiore from its lightcurve 19 September 1950 S. Arend Uccle Obs. (1683) Castafiore 1950 SL1936 PH1949 HA1959 TH Bianca Castafiore(fictional character) main-belt(middle) 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 80.55 yr (29,420 days) 3.2165 AU 2.2554 AU 2.7360 AU 0.1756 4.53 yr (1,653 days) 331.16° 0.2178 ms / day 12.476° 326.66° 346.87° 18.42 0.79 km21.159 0.11421.403 0.075 km25.44 km (calculated) 13.931 0.003 hLCDB-Pray-2011 0.057 (assumed)0.0888 0.01590.119 0.0170.160 0.013 C 11.611.66 0.4611.7 1683 Castafiore, provisional designation 1950 SL, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 September 1950, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, Belgium, and named after the character Bianca Castafiore from The Adventures of Tintin. Orbit and classification The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun in the middle main-belt at a distance of 2.3–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 6 months (1,653 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 12° with respect to the ecliptic. Naming This minor planet was named for Bianca Castafiore, a fictional character in the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin . On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the father of the fictional character, Georges Remi, better known under his pseudonym Hergé, was honoured by the minor planet 1652 Hergé. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C. 6832). Physical characteristics Rotation period In September 2004, American astronomer Donald P. Pray obtained a rotational lightcurve of Castafiore from photometric observations. It gave a rotation period of 13.931 hours with a brightness variation of 0.66 magnitude (U=2+).LCDB-Pray-2011 Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Castafiore measures 21.15 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.160 (best result only), while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057, and calculates a diameter of 25.44 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.7. Notes LCDB-Pray-2011 Pray (2011): rotation period of 13.931 0.003 hours with an amplitude in brightness of 0.66 in magnitude. Summary figure given at http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/generateOneAsteroidInfo.php?AstInfo=1683%7CCastafiore Light curve Database for (1683) Castafiore References 30em 2017-02-25 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1683 Castafiore (1950 SL) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001683 https://web.archive.org/web/20161223063152/http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001683 dead 23 December 2016 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1 July 2017 Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Springer Berlin Heidelberg 134 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1684 (1683) Castafiore Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Springer Berlin Heidelberg 131 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1653 (1652) Hergé 1683 Castafiore (1950 SL) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=1683 22 December 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 22 December 2016 1683 22 December 2016 6 A. Mainzer T. Grav J. Masiero E. Hand J. Bauer D. Tholen R. S. McMillan T. Spahr R. M. Cutri E. Wright J. Watkins W. Mo C. 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