3067 Akhmatova

3067 Akhmatova
Discovery [1]
Discovered by L. V. Zhuravleva
L. G. Karachkina
Discovery site CrAO - Nauchnyj
Discovery date 14 October 1982
Designations
MPC designation 3067 Akhmatova
Named after
 Anna Akhmatova
(Russian poet)[2]
1982 TE2 · 1938 SS
1962 XV · 1972 XV
1977 EV1 · 1980 BE5
main-belt · Flora [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 52.97 yr (19,347 days)   
Aphelion 2.554 AU
Perihelion 1.9369 AU
2.2454 AU
Eccentricity 0.1374
3.36 yr (1,229 days)
336.9378°
0° 17m 34.44s / day
Inclination 4.5255°
350.4975°
95.438°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 6.457±0.060 km[4]
6.81 km (calculated)[3]
3.68629±0.00003 h[lower-alpha 1]
3.68589±0.00004 h[lower-alpha 1]
3.6863±0.0006 h[5]
0.2691±0.0726[4]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
S [3]
13.0[1][3][4]
12.947±0.003 (R)[5]

    3067 Akhmatova, provisional designation 1982 TE2, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 October 1982, by Soviet–Russian female astronomers Lyudmila Zhuravleva and Lyudmila Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.[6]

    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 1.9–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,229 days). Its orbit is tilted by 5° to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.14.[1] The first used precovery was taken at Goethe Link Observatory in 1962, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 20 years prior to its discovery. However, the body was already imaged at Turuk Observatory in 1938.[6]

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 6.5 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.27,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – which derives from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 6.8 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 13.0.[3]

    Two rotational light-curves of this asteroid were obtained from photometric observations performed by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec in December 2009 and May 2012. They showed a rotation period of 3.68629 and 3.68589 hours with a brightness variation of 0.30 and 0.24 in magnitude, respectively (U=3/3).[lower-alpha 1] Observations at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory in August 2012, gave another light-curve with a period of 3.6863 hours and an amplitude of 0.40 in magnitude (U=2).[5]

    The minor planet was named after Russian modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University.[2] Naming citation was published on 31 May 1988 (M.P.C. 13174).[7]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 Pravec (2009) web: rotation period 3.68629±0.00003 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 magnitude; Pravec (2011) web: rotation period 3.68589±0.00004 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.24 mag. Summary figures at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) for (3067) Akhmatova
    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3067 Akhmatova (1982 TE2)" (2015-11-21 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved May 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3067) Akhmatova. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 253. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved May 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (3067) Akhmatova". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved May 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 May 2016.
    5. 1 2 3 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 May 2016.
    6. 1 2 "3067 Akhmatova (1982 TE2)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved May 2016.
    7. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved May 2016.

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