1957 Angara

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

1957 Angara (prov. designation: Template:Mp) is a stony Eos asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter. It was discovered on 1 April 1970, by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, and named after the Siberian Angara River.[1][2]

Classification and orbit

Angara is a member of the Eos family, well known for mostly being of a silicaceous composition. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,906 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.06 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the ecliptic.[3] A first precovery was taken at Goethe Link Observatory in 1956, extending the body's observation arc by 14 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nauchnyj.[2]

Naming

This minor planet was named for the over 1000-mile long Siberian Angara River that drains Lake Baikal.[1] The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 June 1977 (M.P.C. 4190Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[4]

Physical characteristics

In December 1983, a rotational lightcurve of Angara was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Richard Binzel. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-define rotation period of 3.67 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.52 magnitude, indicative of a non-spheroidal shape (U=3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[5] Binzel also classified the body as a stony S-type asteroid.[5]

According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Angara measures between 17.907 and 30.41 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.055 and 0.1438.[6][7][8][9] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony Eoan asteroids of 0.14 – taken from the family's largest member and namesake, 221 Eos – and derives a diameter of 18.38 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.43.[10]

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  6. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  7. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  8. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". (online, AcuA catalog p. 153)
  9. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  10. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Cite error: <ref> tag with name "Veres-2015" defined in <references> is not used in prior text.

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

External links

Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Authority control