1537 Transylvania

Transylvania

Discovery
Discovered by	Gyula Strommer
Discovery site	Budapest
Discovery date	27 August 1940
Designations
MPC designation	1537
Named after	Transylvania
Alternative names	1940 QA
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	112.44 yr (41068 days)
Aphelion	3.9667225 AU (593.41324 Gm)
Perihelion	2.1314205 AU (318.85597 Gm)
Semi-major axis	3.049071 AU (456.1345 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.3009608
Orbital period	5.32 yr (1944.7 d)
Mean anomaly	70.062131°
Mean motion	0° 11^m 6.431^s / day
Inclination	3.857786°
Longitude of ascending node	230.12903°
Argument of perihelion	148.00187°
Earth MOID	1.13351 AU (169.571 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	1.51221 AU (226.223 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.163
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	6.885±0.75 km
Rotation period	12 h (0.50 d)
Geometric albedo	0.1619±0.041
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.4

1537 Transylvania (1940 QA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1940, by Gyula Strommer at Budapest.

It was a lost asteroid until Leif Kahl Kristensen at Aarhus University rediscovered it along with 452 Hamiltonia along with numerous other small objects in 1981^[2]

References

1. "1537 Transylvania (1940 QA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
2. Kristensen, L. K.; Gibson, J.; Shao, C.-Y.; Bowell, E.; Marsden, B. G. (April 1981), Marsden, B. G., ed., "(1537) Transylvania and (452) Hamiltonia", IAU Circ., 3595, 1 1981, Bibcode:1981IAUC.3595....1K

External links

• 1537 Transylvania at the JPL Small-Body Database

• Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters