Английская Википедия:2062 Aten
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2062 Aten Шаблон:IPAc-en,Шаблон:Efn provisional designation Шаблон:Mp, is a stony sub-kilometer asteroid and namesake of the Aten asteroids, a subgroup of near-Earth objects. The asteroid was named after Aten from Egyptian mythology.
It was discovered on 7 January 1976, at the Palomar Observatory by American astronomer Eleanor Helin,[1] who was the principal scientist for the NEAT project until her retirement in 2002. The S-type asteroid measures approximately 900 meters in diameter, has a longer-than average rotation period of 44.77 hours, and approaches the orbit Earth to 44.1 lunar distances.
Orbit and classification
Aten orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.8–1.1 AU once every 11 months (347 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 19° with respect to the ecliptic.[2] A first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in December 1955, extending the body's observation arc by more than 20 years prior to its official discovery observation.[1]
Namesake of the Aten group
Aten was the first asteroid found to have a semi-major orbital axis of less than one astronomical unit and a period of less than one year.[3] A new category of asteroids was thus created, the Atens. As of 2017, the group consists of more than 1,200 numbered members. Other groups of near-Earth objects (NEOs) are the Apollo and Amor asteroids, which are both significantly larger than the Atens, while the Atira asteroids form the smallest NEO-group by far.[4]
Close approaches
The asteroid has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of Шаблон:Convert which corresponds to 44.1 lunar distances.[2]
Physical characteristics
In the Tholen classification, Aten is a common S-type asteroid. In the SMASS taxonomy it is classified as an Sr-type, a subtype which transitions to the R-type asteroids.[2]
Lightcurve
In the 1990s, Italian astronomer Stefano Mottola obtained a rotational lightcurve of Aten during the EUNEASO survey at La Silla, which was a European near-Earth object search and follow-up observation program to determine additional physical parameters. Lightcurve analysis gave a longer-than average rotation period of 40.77 hours with a brightness variation of 0.26 magnitude (Шаблон:Small).[5] No additional lightcurves have been obtained since.[6]
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Aten measures between 700 and 830 meters in diameter and its surface has a high albedo between 0.39 and 0.52.[7][8]
in 1994, Tom Gehrels published a diameter of 1.1 kilometers and an albedo of 0.26 in his book Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids.[2][9] The Warm Spitzer NEO survey ("ExploreNEOs") gives a diameter of 1.3 kilometers with an albedo of 0.20.[10]
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with a revised thermal model for asteroid diameters and albedos, and adopts an albedo of 0.28 with a diameter of 0.91 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 17.2.[11][6] However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) classifies Aten as a larger "1+ KM" object.[1]
Naming
This minor planet was named from Egyptian mythology after Aten, the ancient Egyptian god of the solar disk, originally an aspect of the god Ra.[3] The official Шаблон:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 (Шаблон:Small).[12]
Notes
References
External links
- Benner, et al. - Radar Detection of Near-Earth Asteroids 2062 Aten, 2101 Adonis, 3103 Eger, 4544 Xanthus, and 1992 QN (1997)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Шаблон:Webarchive)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Шаблон:NeoDys
- Шаблон:ESA-SSA
- Шаблон:JPL small body
Шаблон:Minor planets navigator Шаблон:Small Solar System bodies Шаблон:Authority control
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