1499 Pori

Pori
Discovery
Discovered by Y. Väisälä
Discovery site Turku
Discovery date 16 October 1938
Designations
MPC designation 1499
Named after
Pori
1938 UF
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 73.66 yr (26906 days)
Aphelion 3.1669121 AU (473.76331 Gm)
Perihelion 2.1731314 AU (325.09583 Gm)
2.670022 AU (399.4296 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.1860997
4.36 yr (1593.6 d)
350.3054°
 13m 33.269s / day
Inclination 12.17958°
239.62271°
74.93381°
Earth MOID 1.19655 AU (179.001 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.18835 AU (327.373 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.325
Physical characteristics
3.36 h (0.140 d)
11.3

    1499 Pori (1938 UF) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1938, by Y. Väisälä at Turku,[2] and is named after the city of Pori, Finland.

    Photometric observations made in 2003 at the Santana Observatory in Rancho Cucamonga, California, give a synodic rotation period of 8.63 ± 0.005 hours. The light curve shows a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.04 in magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. "1499 Pori (1938 UF)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Stephens, Robert D. (March 2004), "Photometry of 683 Lanzia, 1101 Clematis, 1499 Pori, 1507 Vaasa, and 3893 DeLaeter", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 31 (1), pp. 4–6, Bibcode:2004MPBu...31....4S.

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