1248 Jugurtha

Jugurtha

Discovery
Discovered by	C. Jackson
Discovery site	Johannesburg (UO)
Discovery date	1 September 1932
Designations
MPC designation	1248
Named after	Jugurtha
Alternative names	1932 RO
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	114.42 yr (41792 days)
Aphelion	2.7661046 AU (413.80336 Gm)
Perihelion	2.6761567 AU (400.34734 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.721131 AU (407.0754 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.0165277
Orbital period	4.49 yr (1639.5 d)
Mean anomaly	171.26911°
Mean motion	0° 13^m 10.465^s / day
Inclination	9.138530°
Longitude of ascending node	79.38918°
Argument of perihelion	348.03120°
Earth MOID	1.68945 AU (252.738 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	2.30568 AU (344.925 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.340
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	est. diam. 76km[2]
Rotation period	12.910 h (0.5379 d)
Apparent magnitude	13.0 to 15.3
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.9

1248 Jugurtha (also known as 1932 RO, 1930 DU, A901 VE, and A915 XB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1932, by Cyril V. Jackson at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa,^[2][3] and independently rediscovered later in the same month by Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory in Ukraine.^[3] It is named after Jugurtha, who was a king of Numidia, in North Africa, in the second century BC.^[3]

1248 Jugurtha is estimated to be approximately 76 km in diameter,^[2] and has a synodic period of rotation of approximately 12.19 hours.^[2][4]

Notes

1. "1248 Jugurtha (1932 RO)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
2. Koff & Gross (2002).
3. Schmadel (2003).
4. Worman & Olson (2004).

References

• Bus, S.; Binzel, R. P. (October 2004), 1248 Jugurtha CCD spectrum, Planetary Data System EAR-A-I0028-4-SBN0001/SMASSII-V1.0:1248JUGURT01, NASA, Bibcode:2004PDSS....1...96B.
• Koff, R. A.; Gross, J. (2002), "Lightcurve photometry of asteroid (1248) Jugurtha", The Minor Planet Bulletin 29: 75–76, Bibcode:2002MPBu...29...75K.
• Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), "(1248) Jugurtha", Dictionary of Minor Planet Names 1 (5th ed.), Springer, pp. 103–104, ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
• Worman, Walter E.; Olson, Michael P. (2004), "CCD photometry of 1248 Jugurtha" (PDF), The Minor Planet Bulletin 31 (2): 42, Bibcode:2004MPBu...31...42W.

External links

• 1248 Jugurtha at the JPL Small-Body Database

• Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters