(457175) 2008 GO98

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(457175) 2008 GO98
362P/2008 GO98
Discovery [1]
Discovered by Spacewatch
Discovery site Kitt Peak National Obs.
Discovery date8 April 2008
Designations
(457175) 2008 GO98
2008 GO98 · 362P
Jupiter family [2]
[3]
quasi-Hilda [1] [4]
Orbital characteristics [2]
Epoch 4 December 2015 (JD 2457360.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 16.05 yr (5,862 d)
Aphelion 5.0787 AU
Perihelion 2.8506 AU
3.9646 AU
Eccentricity 0.2810
7.89 yr (2,883 d)
327.18°
0° 7m 29.64s / day
Inclination 15.569°
192.61°
53.287°
Jupiter  MOID 0.3592 AU
TJupiter 2.9260
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
5.5–24.7  km (est.) [5]
14.64 h(calculated) [4]
10.74±0.01  h [4] [lower-alpha 1]
0.057 (assumed) [4]
C (assumed) [4]
12.9 [1] [2] [4]
15.1 [3]

    (457175) 2008 GO98, provisional designation 2008 GO98 with cometary number 362P, is a Jupiter family comet in a quasi-Hilda orbit within the outermost regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 8 April 2008, by astronomers of the Spacewatch program at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. [1] This presumably carbonaceous body has a diameter of approximately 15 kilometers (9 miles) and rotation period of 10.7 hours. [4]

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    Orbit and classification

    2008 GO98 is classified as a member of the dynamical Hilda group, [4] as well as a Jupiter family that shows clear cometary activity, [6] [5] which has also been described as a "quasi-Hilda comet". [3] Orbital backward integration suggests that it might have been a centaur or trans-Neptunian object that ended its dynamical evolution as a quasi-Hilda comet. [3] It may have reached the belt during the last few hundred years. [7]

    It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.9–5.1  AU once every 7 years and 11 months (2,883 days; semi-major axis of 3.96 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.28 and an inclination of 16° with respect to the ecliptic. [2] The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in October 2001, more than 5 years prior to its official discovery observation by Spacewatch. [1]

    Although 2008 GO98 orbits in the asteroid belt, it has a Jupiter Tisserand's parameter (TJ) of 2.926, [2] just below Jewitt's threshold of 3, which serves as a distinction between the main-belt asteroids (TJ larger than 3) and the Jupiter-family comets (TJ between 2 and 3). [8]

    Numbering and naming

    This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 16 February 2016 ( M.P.C. 98587). [9] As of 2020, it has not been named. [1]

    Physical characteristics

    2008 GO98 is an assumed C-type asteroid. [4]

    Rotation period

    In August 2017, a rotational lightcurve of 2008 GO98 was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian Warner at the Palmer Divide Station ( U82 ) in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 10.74±0.01 hours with a small brightness amplitude of 0.12 magnitude ( U=2 ). [4] [lower-alpha 1]

    Diameter and albedo

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a carbonaceous body of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 14.64 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.9. [4] Other estimates, taking into account several published magnitude measurements and a large range of albedo assumptions, estimate a diameter range of 5.5 to 24.7 kilometers. [5]

    Notes

    1. 1 2 Lightcurve plot of (457175) 2008 GO98, by B. D Warner, at CS3 (2017). Rotation period 10.74±0.01 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.12±0.02 mag. Quality Code is 2. Summary figures at the LCDB.

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