1449 Virtanen
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1449 Virtanen, provisional designation Template:Mp, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9.2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 20 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland,[1] and named for Finnish biochemist Artturi Virtanen.[2]
Description
Virtanen is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest collisional populations of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,210 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic.[3] In 1928, Virtanen was first identified as Template:Mp at Heidelberg, extending the body's observation arc by 10 years prior to its official discovery at Turku.[1]
Physical characteristics
In the Tholen taxonomy, Virtanen is classified as a common S-type asteroid.[3]
Lightcurves
VirtanenTemplate:'s first rotational lightcurve was obtained by astronomers Pierre Antonini and Silvano Casulli in May 2007, followed by Australian astronomer Julian Oey at Leura (E17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) and Kingsgrove Observatory (E19Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) in June 2008. The lightcurves gave a rotation period of approximately 30.5 hours with a brightness variation of 0.6 magnitude (U=2-/3-/3-Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[4][5]
Additional periods were obtained from photometric observation in the R and S-band at the Palomar Transient Factory (U=2/2/2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".),[6][7] and from modeled data using the Lowell photometric database and other data sources, which also gave two spin axis of (307.0°, 58.0°) and (89.0°, 61.0°) in ecliptic coordinates, respectively (U=n.a.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[8][9]
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Virtanen measures between 9.15 and 9.947 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.285 and 0.36.[10][11][12][13]
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of its family – and calculates a diameter of 10.31 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.1.[14]
Naming
This minor planet was named for famous Finnish biochemist Artturi Virtanen (1895–1973), recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and president of the Academy of Finland for many years.[2] The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 February 1970 (M.P.C. 3023Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[15]
References
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External links
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Template:Webarchive)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- Template:AstDys
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the JPL Small-Body DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidata
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