12848 Agostino

Main-belt asteroid October 2019 yes 12848 Agostino #D6D6D6 10 July 1997 A. Boattini Campo Imperatore (12848) Agostino 1997 NK 101993 QQ 10 Agostino Boattini(discoverer's father) main-beltEunomia 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 66.88 yr (24,428 days) 2.8514 AU 2.3537 AU 2.6025 AU 0.0956 4.20 yr (1,534 days) 183.78° 0.2348 ms / day 15.066° 172.84° 249.89° 4.55 km (calculated)4.864 0.120 km 6.3225 0.0052 h6.3350 0.0258 h 0.21 (assumed)0.225 0.033 S 13.613.54 0.3213.813.537 0.006 (R)13.574 0.007 (R)14.02 12848 Agostino, provisional designation 1997 NK 10, is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 10 July 1997, by Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini at the Campo Imperatore Observatory in the Gran Sasso massif of central Italy. It was named after the father of the discoverer, Agostino Boattini. Orbit and classification Agostino is a member of the Eunomia family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids and the most prominent family in the intermediate main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.4–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,534 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 15° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins 47 years prior to its official discovery observation with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in June 1950. Physical characteristics Two rotational lightcurves of Agostino were obtained in the R-band from photometric observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in August 2010, and February 2012, respectively. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 6.3350 and 6.3225 hours with a respective brightness variation of 0.51 and 0.84 in magnitude (U=2/2). According to the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Agostino measures 4.9 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.23. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.21 – derived from 15 Eunomia, the family's largest member and namesake – and calculates a diameter of 4.6 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 14.02. Naming This minor planet was named after Agostino Boattini (born 1932), the father of the discoverer. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 May 2001 (M.P.C. 42673). References 2017-05-05 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 12848 Agostino (1997 NK10) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012848 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 24 June 2017 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (12848) Agostino Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 789 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_8689 (12848) Agostino 12848 Agostino (1997 NK10) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=12848 2 May 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 2 May 2016 12848 2 May 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. Maleszewski November 2011 NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2011ApJ...741...90M The Astrophysical Journal 741 2 25 2011ApJ...741...90M 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90 1109.6407 2 May 2016 6 Adam Waszczak Chan-Kao Chang Eran O. Ofek Russ Laher Frank Masci David Levitan Jason Surace Yu-Chi Cheng Wing-Huen Ip Daisuke Kinoshita George Helou Thomas A. 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McMillan T. B. Spahr M. F. Skrutskie D. Tholen R. G. Walker E. L. Wright E. DeBaun D. Elsbury T. IV Gautier S. Gomillion A. Wilkins November 2011 Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE. I. 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 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 12848 12848 (12849) 1997 QD2 012848 Category:Discoveries by Andrea Boattini Category:Named minor planets 19970710