4754 Panthoos
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | 16 October 1977 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4754 |
Named after | Panthous |
| 5010 T-3 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 14031 days (38.41 yr) |
| Aphelion | 5.2919 AU (791.66 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 5.1831 AU (775.38 Gm) |
| 5.2375 AU (783.52 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.010394 |
| 11.99 yr (4378.10 d) | |
| 118.811° | |
| 0° 4m 56.017s / day | |
| Inclination | 12.327° |
| 155.060° | |
| 202.920° | |
| Earth MOID | 4.17546 AU (624.640 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 0.118533 AU (17.7323 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 2.954 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 59 km[2] |
Mean radius | 26.575 ± 2.1 km |
| 27.68 h (1.153 d) | |
| 0.0571 ± 0.010 | |
| 10.0 | |
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4754 Panthoos (5010 T-3) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 27.68 ± 0.05 hours with a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 magnitude.[2]
References
- ↑ "4754 Panthoos (5010 T-3)". 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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