1703 Barry

1703 Barry
Discovery [1]
Discovered by M. Wolf
Discovery site Heidelberg Obs.
Discovery date 2 September 1930
Designations
MPC designation 1703 Barry
Named after
 Roger Barry
(astronomer)[2]
1930 RB · 1939 FD
1940 TP · 1943 PA
1953 PK · 1963 SB
main-belt · Flora [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 85.00 yr (31047 days)
Aphelion 2.5955 AU (388.28 Gm)
Perihelion 1.8337 AU (274.32 Gm)
2.2146 AU (331.30 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.17201
3.30 yr (1203.8 d)
335.56°
0° 17m 56.616s / day
Inclination 4.5194°
112.29°
213.50°
Earth MOID 0.821598 AU (122.9093 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.71078 AU (405.527 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.631
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 9.41 km[4]
9.50±0.24 km[5]
9.21±0.49 km[6]
9.54 km (derived)[3]
Mean radius
 4.705 ± 0.25 km
107.1 h (4.46 d)[1][7]
107.04±0.05 h[8]
105.7450±1.8907 h[9]
0.2187[4]
0.216±0.012[5]
0.330±0.032[6]
0.2805 (derived)[3]
0.2187 ± 0.026[1]
S [3]
12.1

    1703 Barry, provisional designation 1930 RB, is a 10-kilometer sized stony asteroid and suspected tumbler from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory on 2 September 1930.[10] In the same month, it was independently discovered by Dutch astronomer Hendrik van Gent and Soviet astronomer Evgenii Skvortsov at their observatories in Johannesburg and Crimea, respectively.[2]

    The relatively bright S-type asteroid with an albedo of about 0.28 is a member of the Flora family, a large group that accounts for up to 5% of all main-belt asteroids.[4][5][6] It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–2.6 AU once every 3.30 years (1,204 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.17 and is tilted by 5 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic.[1] Photometric observations reported in 2007 showed a leisurely rotation period of 107.1±0.5 hours with a brightness variation of 0.5 magnitude. It may have a non-principal axis rotation.[7] However, no follow-up measurements have since confirmed its tumbling motion.[3]

    The asteroid is named after Vincentian priest Roger Barry (1752–1813), the Court Astronomer of Grand Duchy of Baden at the Mannheim Observatory in 1788. The Heidelberg Observatory is a direct successor to the old Mannheim Observatory.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1703 Barry (1930 RB)" (2015-09-03 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 3 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1703) Barry. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved November 2015.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 "LCDB Data for (1703) Barry". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved November 2015.
    4. 1 2 3 Tedesco, E. F.; Noah, P. V.; Noah, M.; Price, S. D. (October 2004). "IRAS Minor Planet Survey V6.0". NASA Planetary Data System. Bibcode:2004PDSS...12.....T. Retrieved November 2015.
    5. 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.
    6. 1 2 3 Masiero, Joseph R.; Mainzer, A. K.; Grav, T.; Bauer, J. M.; Cutri, R. M.; Nugent, C.; Cabrera, M. S. (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.
    7. 1 2 Galád, Adrián; Pravec, Petr; Gajdos, Stefan; Kornos, Leonard; Világi, Jozef (October 2007). "Seven Asteroids Studied from Modra Observatory in the Course of Binary Asteroid Photometric Campaign". Earth 101 (1-2): 17–25. Bibcode:2007EM&P..101...17G. doi:10.1007/s11038-007-9146-6. Retrieved November 2015.
    8. ↑ Hanus, J.; Broz, M.; Durech, J.; Warner, B. D.; Brinsfield, J.; Durkee, R.; et al. (November 2013). "An anisotropic distribution of spin vectors in asteroid families". Astronomy & Astrophysics 559: 19. arXiv:1309.4296. Bibcode:2013A&A...559A.134H. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321993. Retrieved November 2015.
    9. ↑ 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 November 2015.
    10. ↑ "1703 Barry (1930 RB)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved November 2015.

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