5430 Luu
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. S. Shoemaker |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | 12 May 1988 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 5430 |
Named after | Jane Luu |
| 1988 JA1 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 16669 days (45.64 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.8930 AU (432.79 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8348 AU (274.48 Gm) |
| 2.3639 AU (353.63 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.22382 |
| 3.63 yr (1327.5 d) | |
| 217.307° | |
| 0° 16m 16.284s / day | |
| Inclination | 23.899° |
| 123.013° | |
| 122.198° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.901432 AU (134.8523 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.4575 AU (367.64 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.402 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 13.55 h (0.565 d) | |
| 12.8 | |
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5430 Luu (1988 JA1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 12, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in honor of Vietnamese American astronomer Jane Luu for her research and discovering the first and subsequent members of the Kuiper Belt.[2][3]
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2006 show a rotation period of 13:33 ± 00:01.2 hours with a brightness variation of 0.06 ± 0.02 magnitude.[4]
References
- ↑ "5430 Luu (1988 JA1)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ John Keith Davies (2001). Beyond Pluto: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System. Cambridge University Press. p. 219. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ↑ Marquis Who's Who. 2006.
- ↑ Warner, Brian D. (December 2006), "Asteroid lightcurve analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory - March - June 2006", The Minor Planet Bulletin 33 (4): 85–88, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...85W.
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