1204 Renzia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | K. Reinmuth |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 6 October 1931 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1204 |
| 1931 TE | |
| Mars-crossing[1] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 84.54 yr (30878 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.9279025 AU (438.00798 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.5987572 AU (239.17067 Gm) |
| 2.263330 AU (338.5893 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2936261 |
| 3.41 yr (1243.7 d) | |
| 354.37740° | |
| 0° 17m 22.041s / day | |
| Inclination | 1.879755° |
| 7.581273° | |
| 313.77273° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.586333 AU (87.7142 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.39644 AU (358.502 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.559 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 11–25 km[2] |
| 7.885 h (0.3285 d) | |
Sidereal rotation period | 7.885 h[1] |
| S[1] | |
| 11.9[1] | |
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1204 Renzia (1931 TE) is a 11–25 km Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 6, 1931, by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. In 1985, Duncan Steel estimated that this Mars-crossing asteroid had a better chance than average of impacting into Mars.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1204 Renzia (1931 TE)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ Steel, Duncan (1985). "Collisions in the solar systems. II - Asteroid impacts upon Mars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 215: 369–381. Bibcode:1985MNRAS.215..369S. doi:10.1093/mnras/215.3.369.
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