6460 Bassano

6460 Bassano
Discovery [1]
Discovered by U. Quadri
L. Strabla
Discovery site Bassano Bresciano
Discovery date 26 October 1992
Designations
MPC designation 6460 Bassano
Named after
 Bassano Bresciano
(Italian village)[2]
1992 UK6 · 1985 TR2
1989 YM6
main-belt · Flora [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 30.14 yr (11,010 days)
Aphelion 2.4977 AU
Perihelion 2.0183 AU
2.2580 AU
Eccentricity 0.1061
3.39 yr (1,239 days)
229.00°
0° 17m 25.44s / day
Inclination 3.2271°
299.05°
181.55°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 4.252±0.108 km[4]
4.94 km (calculated)[3]
2.9145±0.0034 h[3]
2.9131±0.0034 h[5]
0.3889±0.0484[4]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
S [3]
13.7[1][3]
13.5[4]
14.291±0.003 (S)[5]
13.576±0.002 (R)[5]

    6460 Bassano, provisional designation 1992 UK6, is a small, stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Italian amateur astronomers Ulisse Quadri and Luca Strabla at the Bassano Bresciano Observatory, northern Italy, on 26 October 1992.[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 2.0–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,239 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic.[1]

    In August 2012, two photometric light-curve analysis at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory, California, rendered a rotation period of 2.9145±0.0034 and 2.9131±0.0034 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.38 and 0.29 in magnitude, respectively (U=2).[5]

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 4.3 km in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.39.[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes a lower albedo of 0.24, which is, according to its orbital characteristics, the same albedo as for the Flora family's namesake, the asteroid 8 Flora, and hence calculates a larger diameter of 4.9 kilometers.[3]

    The minor planet was named for the location of the discovering observatory, Bassano Bresciano, an ancient village in northern Italy. The historic village was under Longobard and Frank control during the early Middle Ages, and then ruled by the House of Sforza and the Venice republic. In the 16th century the former marshland was regained by the two Italian agronomists Camillo Tarello and Agostino Gallo. Monuments in the village include Luzzago's palace and Brunelli's villa. Its church has a Via Crucis credited to the school of Venetian painter Giovanni Tiepolo, one of the great Old Masters of that period.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 6460 Bassano (1992 UK6)" (2015-12-06 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved March 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (6460) Bassano. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 534. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved March 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "LCDB Data for (6460) Bassano". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved March 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 March 2016.
    5. 1 2 3 4 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 March 2016.
    6. ↑ "6460 Bassano (1992 UK6)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved March 2016.

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