1997 Leverrier

Stony main-belt asteroid October 2019 yes 1997 Leverrier #D6D6D6 001997-asteroid shape model (1997) Leverrier.png Leverrier modeled from its lightcurve Indiana University(Indiana Asteroid Program) Goethe Link Obs. 14 September 1963 (1997) Leverrier 1963 RC1940 SF1950 TS 31953 QB1973 SX 41973 UF Urbain Le Verrier(mathematician) main-beltFlora 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 66.72 yr (24,370 days) 2.6660 AU 1.7520 AU 2.2090 AU 0.2069 3.28 yr (1,199 days) 153.46° 0.3002 ms / day 6.0689° 353.22° 0.6461° 6.81 0.7 km (IRAS:2)6.83 km (derived) 8.01532 0.00001 h 0.1662 0.040 (IRAS:2)0.1811 (derived) S 13.3 1997 Leverrier (prov. designation: 1963 RC) is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 14 September 1963, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States, and named after French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier. The asteroid has a rotation period of 6.8 hours and measures approximately 7 km mi off 2 us in diameter. Classification and orbit Leverrier is an S-type asteroid and 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 1.8–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,199 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first observed as 1940 SF at the Abastuman Observatory 119 in Georgia on 28 September 1940. Its first used observation was made at Palomar Observatory in 1950, extending the body's observation arc by 13 years prior to the official discovery observation. Naming This minor planet was named after French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877). In 1846, he predicted the existence and position of the planet Neptune by applying the mathematics of celestial mechanics. The Martian and lunar craters Le Verrier are also named in his honor. Its name was suggested by MPC-director Brian G. Marsden, after whom the minor planet 1877 Marsden is named. The official 1997 naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 (M.P.C. 4237). Physical characteristics In March 2016, a modeled rotation period for Leverrier was published using data from the Lowell Photometric Database (LPD). Using lightcurve inversion and convex shape models, as well as distributed computing power and the help of individual volunteers, a period of 8.015 hours could be obtained for this asteroid from the LPD's sparse-in-time photometry data (U=n.a.). According to the survey carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, Leverrier measures 6.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.166. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.181 and a concurring diameter of 6.8 kilometers, with an absolute magnitude of 13.3. When using a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, its mean diameter is between 6 and 14 kilometers for an assumed albedo in the range of 0.05 to 0.25. References 30em 2017-05-04 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1997 Leverrier (1963 RC) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001997 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1 July 2017 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (1997) Leverrier 162 2007 978-3-540-00238-3 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1998 1997 Leverrier (1963 RC) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=1997 8 December 2016 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition (2006–2008) Appendix – Publication Dates of the MPCs Schmadel Lutz D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 221 978-3-642-01964-7 10.1007/978-3-642-01965-4 E. F. Tedesco P. V. Noah M. Noah S. D. Price October 2004 IRAS Minor Planet Survey V6.0 https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/iras/IRAS_A_FPA_3_RDR_IMPS_V6_0/data/diamalb.tab NASA Planetary Data System – IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 2004PDSS...12.....T 17 October 2019 Johnson H. R. January 1979 Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. Report. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 11 141–144 1979BAAS...11..141J Asteroid Size Estimator CNEOS NASA/JPL https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/ast_size_est.html 21 October 2019 1997 8 December 2016 J. Durech J. Hanus D. Oszkiewicz R. Vanco March 2016 Asteroid models from the Lowell photometric database http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2016A&A...587A..48D Astronomy and Astrophysics 587 6 2016A&A...587A..48D 10.1051/0004-6361/201527573 1601.02909 8 December 2016 External links Lightcurve Database Query (LCDB), at www.minorplanet.info 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 – Geneva Observatory, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 1997 1996 Adams 1997 1998 Titius 001997 001997 Category:Named minor planets 19630914