1988 Delores

1988 Delores
Discovery [1]
Discovered by Indiana Asteroid Program
Discovery site Goethe Link Obs.
Discovery date 28 September 1952
Designations
MPC designation 1988 Delores
Named after
Delores Owings
(Indiana University)[2]
1952 SV · 1951 GF1
1952 UU · 1971 UE
1973 GH
main-belt · Flora[3]
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 63.37 yr (23145 days)
Aphelion 2.3754 AU (355.35 Gm)
Perihelion 1.9319 AU (289.01 Gm)
2.1537 AU (322.19 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.10297
3.16 yr (1154.4 d)
39.841°
 18m 42.624s / day
Inclination 4.2524°
106.40°
235.01°
Earth MOID 0.924723 AU (138.3366 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.92168 AU (437.077 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.692
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 4.60 km (calculated)[3]
88.1521 h (3.67300 d)[1][4]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
S[3]
13.6[1]

    1988 Delores, provisional designation 1952 SV, is a stony asteroid and slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana on 28 September 28, 1952.[5]

    The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 2 months (1,155 days). Its orbit is tilted by 4 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.10. It has a long rotation period of 88 hours.[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an albedo of 0.24, a typical value for stony asteroids.[3]

    It was named after Delores Owings, collaborator of Tom Gehrels and supervisor of position measurements on photographic plates in the minor planet program of Indiana University. The naming was proposed by the Director of the Minor Planet Center, Paul Herget.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1988 Delores (1952 SV)" (2015-11-14 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1988) Delores. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 161. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved October 2015.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 "LCDB Data for (1988) Delores". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved December 2015.
    4. 1 2 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 December 2015.
    5. "1988 Delores (1952 SV)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved October 2015.

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