1652 Hergé

Asteroid October 2019 yes 1652 Hergé #D6D6D6 001652-asteroid shape model (1652) Hergé.png Shape model of Hergé from its lightcurve 9 August 1953 S. Arend Uccle Obs. (1652) Hergé 1953 PA1933 UE 11939 HG Georges Remi(Hergé) cartoonist main-beltFlora 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 83.41 yr (30,464 days) 2.5883 AU 1.9139 AU 2.2511 AU 0.1498 3.38 yr (1,234 days) 34.960° 3.1989° 251.72° 13.107° 8.689 0.081 km8.954 0.083 km9.41 km (calculated) 16.36 0.02 hLCDB-Pravec-2014Screenshot-Lightcurve 0.1160 0.02150.137 0.0280.24 (assumed)0.308 0.060 S 12.2012.312.54 0.1913.2 1652 Hergé, provisional designation 1953 PA, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 August 1953, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, Belgium. It was later named after Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Orbit and classification Hergé is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest families of stony asteroids. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,234 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as 1933 UE 1 at Heidelberg Observatory in 1933, extending the body's observation arc by 20 years prior to its official discovery observation. Physical characteristics Hergé has been characterized as a common S-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric survey. Rotation period Astronomer Petr Pravec obtained a rotational lightcurve of Hergé from photometric observations taken at Ondřejov Observatory in September 2014.Screenshot-Lightcurve It gave a rotation period of 16.36 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.42 magnitude (U=3-).LCDB-Pravec-2014 Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Hergé measures between 8.68 and 8.95 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.116 and 0.308. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 9.41 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.54. Naming This minor planet was named in honor of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known under his pseudonym Hergé. He is considered to be the father of the fictional Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, and creator of its hero, Tintin, in 1929. The asteroid 1683 Castafiore was also named after the comic-strip character Bianca Castafiore from the series. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C. 6831). Notes LCDB-Pravec-2014 Pravec (2014) web (2014-09-18): rotation period of 16.36 0.02, 0.42 mag, (quality code of 3-). Summary figures for (1652) Herge at Asteroid Lightcurve Database and Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2014) Screenshot-Lightcurve lightcurve plot of (1652) Hergé. Lightcurve analysis by Petr Pravec References 30em 2017-03-16 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1652 Herge (1953 PA) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001652 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 30 June 2017 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1652) Hergé Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 131 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1653 (1652) Hergé 1652 Herge (1953 PA) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=1652 25 December 2016 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 25 December 2016 1652 25 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. Maleszewski November 2011 NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results The Astrophysical Journal 741 2 25 2011ApJ...741...90M 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90 1109.6407 6 Joseph R. Masiero A. K. Mainzer T. Grav J. M. Bauer R. M. Cutri C. Nugent M. S. 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Sonnett August 2014 Main-belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-infrared Albedos http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2014ApJ...791..121M The Astrophysical Journal 791 2 11 2014ApJ...791..121M 10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/121 1406.6645 25 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/20241208174218/http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html 8 December 2024 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 1652 1651 Behrens 1652 1653 Yakhontovia 001652 Category:Discoveries by Sylvain Arend Category:Named minor planets Category:Hergé 19530809