1672 Gezelle

1672 Gezelle
Discovery[1]
Discovered by E. Delporte
Discovery site Uccle – Belgium
Discovery date 29 January 1935
Designations
MPC designation 1672 Gezelle
Named after
Guido Gezelle
(poet and priest)[2]
1935 BD · 1929 AA
1933 SE1 · 1939 VK
1950 SX · 1978 NA8
A924 EO
main-belt · (outer)[3]
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 82.49 yr (30128 days)
Aphelion 4.0512 AU (606.05 Gm)
Perihelion 2.3034 AU (344.58 Gm)
3.1773 AU (475.32 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.27505
5.66 yr (2068.6 d)
78.985°
 10m 26.508s / day
Inclination 1.0650°
181.21°
255.50°
Earth MOID 1.31829 AU (197.213 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.24553 AU (186.329 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.140
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 26.56±1.86 km[4]
26.205±0.202 km[5]
27.90 km (calculated)[3]
40.72 h (1.697 d)[1][6]
0.092±0.014[4]
0.0936±0.0162[5]
0.057 (assumed)[3]
C[3]
11.5

    1672 Gezelle, provisional designation 1935 BD, is a slowly rotating, carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 27 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle on 29 January 1935.[7]

    The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.3–4.1 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (2,070 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.27 and is tilted by 1 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 40.7 hours[6] and an albedo of 0.09 as determined by the Akari and NEOWISE missions.[4][5]

    It was named in memory of famous Flemish poet and Roman Catholic priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899), who wrote extensively on religion and nature.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1672 Gezelle (1935 BD)" (2015-05-28 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1672) Gezelle. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 133. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved November 2015.
    3. 1 2 3 4 "LCDB Data for (1672) Gezelle". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved November 2015.
    4. 1 2 3 Usui, Fumihiko; Kuroda, Daisuke; Müller, Thomas G.; Hasegawa, Sunao; Ishiguro, Masateru; Ootsubo, Takafumi; et al. (October 2011). "Asteroid Catalog Using Akari: AKARI/IRC Mid-Infrared Asteroid Survey". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 63 (5): 1117–1138. Bibcode:2011PASJ...63.1117U. doi:10.1093/pasj/63.5.1117. Retrieved November 2015.
    5. 1 2 3 Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Hand, E.; Bauer, J.; Tholen, D.; et al. (November 2011). "NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results". The Astrophysical Journal 741 (2): 25. arXiv:1109.6407. Bibcode:2011ApJ...741...90M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90. Retrieved November 2015.
    6. 1 2 Brinsfield, James W. (April 2009). "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Via Capote Observatory: 2008 4th Quarter". The Minor Planet Bulletin 36 (2): 64–66. Bibcode:2009MPBu...36...64B. ISSN 1052-8091. Retrieved November 2015.
    7. "1672 Gezelle (1935 BD)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved November 2015.

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