990 Yerkes

990 Yerkes
Discovery
Discovered by G. Van Biesbroeck
Discovery site Williams Bay
Discovery date 23 November 1922
Designations
1922 MZ
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 102.46 yr (37425 days)
Aphelion 3.2477 AU (485.85 Gm)
Perihelion 2.0916 AU (312.90 Gm)
2.6696 AU (399.37 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.21652
4.36 yr (1593.2 d)
216.84°
 13m 33.456s / day
Inclination 8.7872°
353.971°
9.4832°
Earth MOID 1.08846 AU (162.831 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.20477 AU (329.829 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.331
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
9.23±0.6 km
24.56 h (1.023 d)
24.45 ± 0.05[2] h
0.1303±0.018
11.7

    990 Yerkes is a main belt asteroid discovered by Belgian-American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck in 1922.

    Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2009 show a rotation period of 24.45 ± 0.05 hours with a brightness variation of 0.35 ± 0.05 magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. "990 Yerkes (1922 MZ)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
    2. 1 2 Ruthroff, John C. (April 2010), "Lightcurve Analysis of Asteroid 990 Yerkes", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 37 (2): 74, Bibcode:2010MPBu...37...74R.

    External links


    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.