2011 Veteraniya

2011 Veteraniya
Discovery [1]
Discovered by T. Smirnova
Discovery site CrAO - Nauchnyj
Discovery date 30 August 1970
Designations
MPC designation 2011 Veteraniya
Named after
 veterans
(Soviet veterans WWII)[2]
1970 QB1 · 1955 RE
1955 SN1 · 1959 UA
main-belt · Vestian [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 66.00 yr (24,107 days)
Aphelion 2.7430 AU
Perihelion 2.0322 AU
2.3876 AU
Eccentricity 0.1488
3.69 yr (1,348 days)
175.60°
0° 16m 1.56s / day
Inclination 6.1853°
338.57°
3.3790°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 5.193±0.646 km[4]
7.46 km (calculated)[3]
8.209±0.005 h[lower-alpha 1]
0.4633±0.1000[4]
0.20 (assumed)[3]
V [5] · S [3]
13.0[1][3]
12.9[4]
13.55±0.23[5]

    2011 Veteraniya, provisional designation 1970 QB1, is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 August 1970, by Russian female astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.[6]

    The asteroid is a member of the Vesta family. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,346 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.15 and is tilted by 6 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic.[1] The first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1950, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 20 years prior to its discovery.[6]

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) and Pan-STARRS' large-scale survey classify it as a S-type and V-type asteroid, respectively.[3][5] According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid's surface has an exceptionally high albedo of 0.46 and a corresponding diameter of 5.2 kilometers,[4] while CALL assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20. CALL therefore calculates a larger diameter of 7.8 kilometers, as the lower the albedo (reflectivity), the higher the body's diameter at a constant absolute magnitude (brightness).[3] A photometric light-curve analysis by Japanese astronomer Sunao Hasegawa in 2004 has given a rotation period of 8.209±0.005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 in magnitude.[lower-alpha 1]

    The minor planet was named in honor of the Soviet veterans of the Great Patriotic War.[2] (The term is used in Russia to describe the conflict fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II during 1941–1945.) Naming citation was published before November 1979 (M.P.C. 4481).[7]

    References

    1. 1 2 Hasegawa (2012) web: rotation period 8.209±0.005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 mag. Summary figures at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) for (2011) Veteraniya
    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 2011 Veteraniya (1970 QB1)" (2016-04-17 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (2011) Veteraniya. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 163. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved April 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "LCDB Data for (2011) Veteraniya". 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 April 2016.
    5. 1 2 3 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.
    6. 1 2 "2011 Veteraniya (1970 QB1)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved April 2016.
    7. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved April 2016.

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