1053 Vigdis

Main-belt asteroid March 2018 yes 1053 Vigdis #D6D6D6 M. F. Wolf Heidelberg Obs. 16 November 1925 (1053) Vigdis 1925 WA1929 RM unknown main-belt(middle)background 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) 0 91.55 yr (33,439 d) 2.8669 AU 2.3616 AU 2.6143 AU 0.0966 4.23 yr (1,544 d) 280.15° 0.2332 ms / day 8.3407° 17.590° 42.538° 9.110 1.041 km 0.389 0.269 12.2 1053 Vigdis, provisional designation 1925 WA, is a bright background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 km mi off us in diameter. It was discovered on 16 November 1925, by German astronomer Max Wolf at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Heidelberg, Germany. The meaning of the asteroids's name is unknown. Orbit and classification Vigdis is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.4–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 3 months (1,544 days; semi-major axis of 2.61 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid was first observed at Algiers Observatory on 15 November 1925. The body's observation arc begins at Heidelberg with its official discovery observation the following night. Physical characteristics According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Vigdis measures 9.110 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.389. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of Vigdis has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown. Naming Any reference of this minor planet's name to a person or occurrence is unknown. "Vigdis" is an antiquated female first name used in Scandinavia and Iceland. Unknown meaning Among the many thousands of named minor planets, Vigdis is one of 120 asteroids for which no official naming citation has been published. All of these asteroids have low numbers between 164 164 Eva and 1514 1514 Ricouxa and were discovered between 1876 and the 1930s, predominantly by astronomers Auguste Charlois, Johann Palisa, Max Wolf and Karl Reinmuth. References 30em 2017-06-05 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1053 Vigdis (1925 WA) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001053 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 26 March 2018 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1053) Vigdis Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 90 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1054 (1053) Vigdis Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Fifth Revised and Enlarged revision Appendix 11 – Minor Planet Names with Unknown Meaning Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 927–929 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 Lutz D. Schmadel 1053 Vigdis (1925 WA) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=1053 26 March 2018 Asteroid 1053 Vigdis – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0 Small Bodies Data Ferret https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=1053+Vigdis 24 October 2019 19 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200819085321/https://sbntools.psi.edu/ferret/SimpleSearch/results.action?targetName=1053+Vigdis dead 6 Joseph R. Masiero A. K. Mainzer T. Grav J. M. Bauer R. M. Cutri C. Nugent M. S. Cabrera November 2012 Preliminary Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE 3-Band Cryogenic and Post-cryogenic Observations of Main Belt Asteroids http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2012ApJ...759L...8M The Astrophysical Journal Letters 759 1 5 2012ApJ...759L...8M 10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8 1209.5794 26 March 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 (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 1053 1052 Belgica 1053 1054 Forsytia 001053 Category:Discoveries by Max Wolf Category:Named minor planets 19251116