1683 Castafiore

For the fictional character in the running comic strip The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, see Bianca Castafiore.
1683 Castafiore
Discovery [1]
Discovered by S. Arend
Discovery site Uccle – Belgium
Discovery date 19 September 1950
Designations
MPC designation 1683 Castafiore
Named after
 Bianca Castafiore
(fictional character)[2]
1950 SL · 1936 PH
1949 HA · 1959 TH
main-belt · (outer) [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 79.59 yr (29071 days)
Aphelion 3.2215 AU (481.93 Gm)
Perihelion 2.2543 AU (337.24 Gm)
2.7379 AU (409.58 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.17663
4.53 yr (1654.7 d)
201.13°
0° 13m 3.216s / day
Inclination 12.495°
326.73°
346.38°
Earth MOID 1.24071 AU (185.608 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.08659 AU (312.149 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.295
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 21.403±0.075 km[4]
18.42±0.79 km[5]
26.64 km (caculated)[3]
13.931±0.003h,[lower-alpha 1] 13.931 h (0.5805 d)[1]
0.0888±0.0159[4]
0.119±0.017[5]
0.057 (assumed)[3]
C [3]
11.6

    1683 Castafiore, provisional designation 1950 SL, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 21 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle on 19 September 1950.[6]

    The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.2–3.2 AU once every four and a half years (1,653 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.18 and is tilted by 13 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 13.9 hours[lower-alpha 1] and an albedo in the range of 0.09–0.12, as measured by the WISE/NEOWISE mission.[4][5]

    It is named after the fictional Adventures of Tintin character, Bianca Castafiore.[2] On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the father of the comic-strip character, Georges Remi, better known under his pseudonym Hergé, was honoured by the minor planet 1652 Hergé.[7]

    References

    1. 1 2 Pray (2011): rotation period of 13.931±0.003 hours with an amplitude in brightness of 0.66 in magnitude. Summary figure given at Light curve Database for (1683) Castafiore
    1. 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1683 Castafiore (1950 SL)" (2015-03-04 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1683) Castafiore. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 134. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved November 2015.
    3. 1 2 3 4 "LCDB Data for (1683) Castafiore". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved November 2015.
    4. 1 2 3 Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Hand, E.; Bauer, J.; 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.
    5. 1 2 3 Masiero, Joseph R.; Mainzer, A. K.; Grav, T.; Bauer, J. M.; Cutri, R. M.; et al. (November 2012). "Preliminary Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE 3-Band Cryogenic and Post-cryogenic Observations of Main Belt Asteroids". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 759 (1): 5. arXiv:1209.5794. Bibcode:2012ApJ...759L...8M. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8. Retrieved November 2015.
    6. ↑ "1683 Castafiore (1950 SL)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved November 2015.
    7. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1652) Hergé. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 131. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved November 2015.

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