1929 Kollaa

1929 Kollaa
Discovery [1]
Discovered by Y. Väisälä
Discovery site Turku Obs.
Discovery date 20 January 1939
Designations
MPC designation 1929 Kollaa
Named after
 Kollaa River
(in Karelia)[2]
1939 BS · 1939 CH
1943 GG · 1968 BH
1976 JF3
main-belt · Vestian [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 48.15 yr (17,586 days)
Aphelion 2.5401 AU
Perihelion 2.1851 AU
2.3626 AU
Eccentricity 0.0751
3.63 yr (1,326 days)
63.632°
Inclination 7.7796°
65.435°
71.319°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 7.772±0.147 km[4]
6.71±0.34 km[5]
6.35 km (calculated)[3]
2.9887±0.0004 h[6]
2.980±0.005 h[lower-alpha 1]
0.3855±0.0958[4]
0.393±0.066[5]
0.4 (assumed)[3]
SMASS = V [1] · V [3]
12.6[1][3]
12.2[4]
12.50[5]
12.64±0.32[7]

    1929 Kollaa, provisional designation 1939 BS, is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland, on 20 January 1939.[8]

    The vestoid or V-type asteroid is a member of the Vesta family. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.2–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,327 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.08 and an inclination of 8 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.[1] Vestian asteroids have a composition akin to cumulate eucrite meteorites and are thought to have originated deep within 4 Vesta's crust, possibly from the Rheasilvia crater, a large impact crater on its southern hemisphere near the South pole, formed as a result of a subcatastrophic collision. The asteroid Vesta is the main-belt's second-most-massive body after 1 Ceres.[9]

    The asteroid has a well-defined rotation period of 2.98 hours, determined by two photometric light-curve analysis. The first observation in 2004, at the U.S. Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico rendered a period of 2.980±0.005 hours, with a brightness amplitude of 0.20 in magnitude (U=3). In 2008 a second, concurring observation by French amateur astronomer Pierre Antonini at his private Observatoire de Bédoin (132) in France, gave a period of 2.9887±0.0004 hours and a corresponding amplitude 0.22 in magnitude (U=3).[6][lower-alpha 1]

    According to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the body measures 6.7 and 7.7 kilometers in diameter, respectively, and its surface has an albedo 0.39.[4][5] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an almost identical albedo of 0.40, yet calculates a somewhat shorter diameter of 6.4 kilometers.[3] The minor planet is named after the Kollaa River in Karelia, the focal point of violent battles during the Finnish Winter War (1939–40).[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 Ryan (2007) web: rotation period 2.980±0.005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.22 mag. Summary figures at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) for (1929) Kollaa
    1. 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1929 Kollaa (1939 BS)" (2016-03-18 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1929) Kollaa. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 155. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved April 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (1929) Kollaa". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved April 2016.
    4. 1 2 3 4 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 January 2016.
    5. 1 2 3 4 Masiero, Joseph R.; Mainzer, A. K.; Grav, T.; Bauer, J. M.; Cutri, R. M.; Nugent, C.; 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 January 2016.
    6. 1 2 Behrend, Raoul. "Asteroids and comets rotation curves – (1929) Kollaa". Geneva Observatory. Retrieved April 2016.
    7. ↑ Veres, Peter; Jedicke, Robert; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Granvik, Mikael; Bolin, Bryce; et al. (November 2015). "Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results". Icarus 261: 34–47. arXiv:1506.00762. Bibcode:2015Icar..261...34V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007. Retrieved April 2016.
    8. ↑ "1929 Kollaa (1939 BS)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved April 2016.
    9. ↑ Kelley, Michael S.; Vilas, Faith; Gaffey, Michael J.; Abell, Paul A. (September 2003). "Quantified mineralogical evidence for a common origin of 1929 Kollaa with 4 Vesta and the HED meteorites". Icarus 165 (1): 215–218. Bibcode:2003Icar..165..215K. doi:10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00149-0. Retrieved January 2016.

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