4063 Euforbo
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Oss. San Vittore |
| Discovery site | Bologna |
| Discovery date | 1 February 1989 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4063 |
| 1989 CG2 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 26664 days (73.00 yr) |
| Aphelion | 5.7951 AU (866.93 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 4.5694 AU (683.57 Gm) |
| 5.1823 AU (775.26 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.11826 |
| 11.80 yr (4309.03 d) | |
| 157.477° | |
| 0° 5m 0.766s / day | |
| Inclination | 18.939° |
| 113.516° | |
| 318.683° | |
| Earth MOID | 3.60937 AU (539.954 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 0.439738 AU (65.7839 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 2.879 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 113 km[2] |
Mean radius | 51.23 ± 2.05 km |
| 8.846 h (0.3686 d) | |
| 0.0611 ± 0.005 | |
| 8.7 | |
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4063 Euforbo (1989 CG2) is a large 102 km Jupiter Trojan discovered on February 1, 1989, by Oss. San Vittore at Bologna.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1992 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 8.841 ± 0.025 hours with a brightness variation of 0.19 ± 0.01 magnitude.[2]
References
- ↑ "4063 Euforbo (1989 CG2)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- 1 2 Mottola, Stefano; Di Martino, Mario; Erikson, Anders; Gonano-Beurer, Maria; Carbognani, Albino; Carsenty, Uri; Hahn, Gerhard; Schober, Hans-Josef; Lahulla, Felix; Delbò, Marco; Lagerkvist, Claes-Ingvar (May 2011). "Rotational Properties of Jupiter Trojans. I. Light Curves of 80 Objects". The Astronomical Journal 141 (5): 170. Bibcode:2011AJ....141..170M. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/141/5/170.
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