9549 Akplatonov

9549 Akplatonov
Discovery [1]
Discovered by N. Chernykh
L. Chernykh
Discovery site CrAO – Nauchnyj
Discovery date 19 September 1985
Designations
MPC designation 9549 Akplatonov
Named after
 Aleksandr Platonov
(computational mathematician)[2]
1985 SM2 · 1981 TU1
1987 BP3 · 1992 JK3
main-belt · Eunomia [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 34.54 yr (12,617 days)
Aphelion 2.8894 AU
Perihelion 2.3238 AU
2.6066 AU
Eccentricity 0.1085
4.21 yr (1,537 days)
309.3289°
0° 14m 3.12s / day
Inclination 11.1485°
235.2147°
306.1034°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 8.238±0.173 km[4]
9.17 km (calculated)[3]
2.8431±0.0004 h[5]
4.7045±0.0011 h[6]
0.2854±0.0437[4]
0.21 (assumed)[3]
S [3]
12.5[1][3]
12.4[4]
12.89±0.34[7]
12.374±0.003 (R)[6]

    9549 Akplatonov, provisional designation 1985 SM2, is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 September 1985, by Soviet–Russian astronomer couple Nikolai and Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.[8]

    The asteroid is a member of the Eunomia family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids and the most prominent family in the intermediate main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.3–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 3 months (1,537 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the plane of the ecliptic.[1] The first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in 1981, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 4 years prior to its discovery.[8]

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 8.2 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.29,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.21, and calculates a diameter of 9.2 kilometers.[3]

    A rotational light-curve was obtained from photometric observations using the 0.9-meter SARA telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in May 2009. It showed a rotation period of 2.8431±0.0004 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.15 in magnitude (U=3-).[5] A second, fragmentary light-curve from observations at Palomar Transient Factory in August 2010, gave a period of 4.7 hours and has received a low quality rating by CALL (U=1).[6]

    The minor planet was named in honor of Russian computational mathematician, roboticist, and astrodynamicist, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Platonov (b. 1931), long-time member at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. He pioneered the research in walking robots, the computation of satellite orbits around Earth, and the guidance of the flight path of spacecrafts in the Solar System.[2] Naming citation was published on 24 June 2002 (M.P.C. 46009).[9]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 9549 Akplatonov (1985 SM2)" (2016-04-19 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved May 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (9549) Akplatonov. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 698. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved May 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (9549) Akplatonov". 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 Murphy, Brian W.; Darragh, Andrew N.; Harp, Thomas W.; Liu, Zheyu J.; Geiss, Brian B.; Lawder, Matthew T.; et al. (July 2011). "Lightcurve Analysis of Asteroids (6577) 1978 VB6, 6619 Kolya, 9549 Akplatonov, (12466) 1997 AS12, (15154) 2000 FW30, and (32505) 2001 KF17". The Minor Planet Bulletin 38 (3): 139–140. Bibcode:2011MPBu...38..139M. ISSN 1052-8091. Retrieved May 2016.
    6. 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.
    7. ↑ 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 May 2016.
    8. 1 2 "9549 Akplatonov (1985 SM2)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved May 2016.
    9. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved May 2016.

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