15258 Alfilipenko

15258 Alfilipenko
Discovery [1]
Discovered by L. V. Zhuravleva
Discovery site CrAO (Nauchnyj)
Discovery date 15 September 1990
Designations
MPC designation 15258 Alfilipenko
Named after
Alexander Menshikov
(Russian statesman)[2]
1990 RN17 · 1998 BJ11
main-belt (outer)
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 9305 days (25.48 yr)
Aphelion 3.7834 AU (565.99 Gm)
Perihelion 2.6854 AU (401.73 Gm)
3.2344 AU (483.86 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.16973
5.82 yr (2124.7 d)
166.14°
 10m 9.984s / day
Inclination 6.7556°
294.53°
31.057°
Earth MOID 1.67416 AU (250.451 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.55024 AU (231.913 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.152
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 11.29 km (calculated)[3]
4.3655 h[4]
0.057 (assumed)[3]
C[3]
13.1[1]

    15258 Alfilipenko, provisional designation 1990 RN17, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 11 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Russian–Ukraininan astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, Crimean peninsula, on 15 September 1990.[5]

    The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.8 AU once every 5 years and 10 months (2,122 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.17 and is tilted by 7 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 4.4 hours[4] and an albedo of 0.06, assumed by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL).[3]

    The minor planet was named in honour of Aleksandr Vasil'evich Filipenko (b.1950), civil engineer at Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia, and chairman of a charitable fund for the memory of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729).[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 15258 Alfilipenko (1990 RN17)" (2015-11-20 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (15258) Alfilipenko. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 886. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved December 2015.
    3. 1 2 3 4 "LCDB Data for (15258) Alfilipenko". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved December 2015.
    4. 1 2 Waszczak, Adam; Chang, Chan-Kao; Ofek, Eran O.; Laher, Russ; Masci, Frank; Levitan, David; et al. (September 2015). "Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry". The Astronomical Journal 150 (3): 35. arXiv:1504.04041. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...75W. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/75. Retrieved December 2015.
    5. "15258 Alfilipenko (1990 RN17)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved December 2015.

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