13732 Woodall

13732 Woodall
Discovery [1]
Discovered by LINEAR
Discovery site Lincoln Lab's ETS
Discovery date 14 September 1998
Designations
MPC designation 13732 Woodall
Named after
 Ashley Renee Woodall (DCYSC)[2]
1998 RC56 · 1989 EU5
1991 VS13 · 1997 LA16
main-belt · Vestian [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 26.43 yr (9,653 days)
Aphelion 2.6126 AU
Perihelion 2.1358 AU
2.3742 AU
Eccentricity 0.1004
3.66 yr (1,336 days)
211.91°
0° 16m 9.84s / day
Inclination 6.0473°
204.72°
217.63°
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.528
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 3.92 km (calculated)[3]
8.2987±0.0005 h[4]
0.20 (assumed)[3]
B–V = 0.864±0.147[5]
V–R = 0.468±0.068[5]
S [3][6]
14.4[1][3]
15.23±0.10[6]

    13732 Woodall, provisional designation 1998 RC56, is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 September 1998, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in Socorro, New Mexico.[7]

    The stony S-type asteroid is a member of the Vesta family, which is named after the asteroid 4 Vesta, the second-largest body in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,336 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the plane of the ecliptic.[1] Due to a precovery obtained at the Australian Siding Spring Observatory in 1989, the asteroid has an observation arc that start almost a decade before its actual discovery.[7]

    A rotational light-curve was obtained based on photometric observations by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory in September 2009. The light-curve gave a well-defined rotation period of 8.2987±0.0005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.27 in magnitude (U=3).[4]

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 3.9 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 14.4.[3]

    The minor planet was named after Ashley Renee Woodall (b. 1987) student at the U.S. Austin Academy for Excellence in Garland, Texas. In 2002, she was a finalist of the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a science and engineering competition.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 13732 Woodall (1998 RC56)" (2015-08-06 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (13732) Woodall. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 803. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved April 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (13732) Woodall". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved April 2016.
    4. 1 2 Pravec, P.; Vokrouhlický, D.; Polishook, D.; Scheeres, D. J.; Harris, A. W.; Galád, A.; et al. (August 2010). "Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission". Nature 466 (7310): 1085–1088.(NatureHomepage). arXiv:1009.2770. Bibcode:2010Natur.466.1085P. doi:10.1038/nature09315. Retrieved April 2016.
    5. 1 2 Ye, Q.-z. (February 2011). "BVRI Photometry of 53 Unusual Asteroids". The Astronomical Journal 141 (2): 8. arXiv:1011.0133. Bibcode:2011AJ....141...32Y. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/141/2/32. Retrieved April 2016.
    6. 1 2 Veres, Peter; Jedicke, Robert; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Granvik, Mikael; Bolin, Bryce; et al. (November 2015). "Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results". Icarus 261: 34–47. arXiv:1506.00762. Bibcode:2015Icar..261...34V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007. Retrieved April 2016.
    7. 1 2 "13732 Woodall (1998 RC56)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved April 2016.

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