5635 Cole

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5635 Cole (prov. designation: Template:Mp) is a background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter. It was discovered on 2 March 1981, by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.[1] The L/S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.79 hours.[2] It was named after the fictional character Template:MoMP.[1]

Orbit and classification

Cole is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.[3] It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.7–3.0 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,345 days; semi-major axis of 2.39 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.27 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic.[4] The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at the discovering Siding Spring Observatory on 9 February 1981, or four weeks prior to its official discovery observation.[1]

Naming

This minor planet was named after fictional character Template:MoMP in the novel Cole of Spyglass Mountain (1923) by Arthur Preston Hankins. The protagonist, reminiscent of Oliver Twist, is an amateur astronomer in a dystopian society where boys receive numbers instead of names. In the novel, Cole's number is Template:LoMP and corresponds to this asteroid's numbering.[1] The official naming citation was prepared by David H. Levy and published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 December 1997 (M.P.C. 31024Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[5]

Physical characteristics

In the Moving Object Catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Cole has a spectral type is closest to an L-type asteroid followed by the common, stony S-type.[6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link also assume it to be an S-type asteroid.[2]

Rotation period

In September 2004, two rotational lightcurves of Cole were obtained from photometric observations by Donald Pray, Silvano Casulli, René Roy. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 5.792 and 5.7937 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.33 and 0.30 magnitude, respectively (U=3/3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[7][8]

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Cole measures between 3.51 and 4.263 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.29 and 0.294,[9][10][11] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a stony asteroids of 0.20, and calculates a diameter of 4.71 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 14.0.[2]

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