13070 Seanconnery

Background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt May 2024 yes 13070 Seanconnery #D6D6D6 8 September 1991 E. W. Elst Haute-Provence Obs. (13070) Seanconnery 1991 RO 21127 T-1 Sean Connery(Scottish actor) main-belt(inner)background 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 46.20 yr (16,873 days) 3.1052 AU 1.7521 AU 2.4287 AU 0.2786 3.78 yr (1,382 days) 324.53° 0.2604 ms / day 5.6226° 205.71° 131.76° 1.764 0.130 km3.57 km (calculated) 7.085 0.001 h 0.20 (assumed)0.900 0.095 S (assumed) 14.514.614.715.12 0.20 13070 Seanconnery, provisional designation 1991 RO 2, is a background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 September 1991, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory, St. Michael, in southeast France. The asteroid was named after actor Sean Connery. Orbit and classification Seanconnery is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.8–3.1 AU once every 3 years and 9 months (1,382 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.28 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid's observation arc begins 20 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its identification 1127 T-1 made during the first Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey in 1971. Physical characteristics Rotation period In August 2006, a rotational lightcurve of Seanconnery was obtained from photometric observations made at the Hunters Hill Observatory (E14) in Ngunnawal, Australia. The lightcurve gave a well-defined rotation period of 7.085 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.18 in magnitude (U=3-). Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Seanconnery has an outstandingly high albedo of 0.90 and a diameter of 1.8 kilometers. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter 3.6 kilometers, as the lower the albedo (reflectivity), the larger an asteroid's diameter for a certain absolute magnitude (brightness). Naming This minor planet was named for celebrated Scottish actor and Academy Award winner Sean Connery (1930–2020), famous for portraying the character James Bond – after which the minor planet 9007 James Bond is named, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. With this minor planet, he is especially honored by the discoverer for his performance as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 (M.P.C. 42362). References 30em 2017-06-03 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 13070 Seanconnery (1991 RO2) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2013070 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 24 June 2017 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (13070) Seanconnery Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 792 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_8733 (13070) Seanconnery 13070 Seanconnery (1991 RO2) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=13070 26 April 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 26 April 2016 13070 26 April 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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Preliminary Albedos and Diameters http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2011ApJ...741...68M The Astrophysical Journal 741 2 20 2011ApJ...741...68M 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/68 1109.4096 3 December 2016 External links AstDyS-2, (13070) Seanconnery 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 13070 13069 Umbertoeco 13070 (13071) 1991 RT5 013070 Category:Discoveries by Eric Walter Elst Category:Named minor planets 1127 19910908 Category:Sean Connery