11118 Modra

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11118 Modra
Discovery [1]
Discovered by A. Galád
D. Kalmančok
Discovery site Modra Obs.
Discovery date9 August 1996
Designations
(11118) Modra
Named after
 Modra
(town and observatory) [2]
1996 PK ·1991 FL1
main-belt  · Flora [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 25.44 yr (9,291 days)
Aphelion 2.5052 AU
Perihelion 2.1225 AU
2.3139 AU
Eccentricity 0.0827
3.52 yr (1,286 days)
139.39°
0° 16m 48s / day
Inclination 3.0326°
7.4717°
204.63°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions3.74 km (calculated) [3]
8.69±3.13 km [4]
27.12±0.02 h [5]
27.1481±0.0409 h [6]
0.054±0.105 [4]
0.24 (assumed) [3]
S [3]  · C [7]
14.3 [1] [3]  ·14.211±0.005(R) [6]  ·14.17±0.36 [7]  ·14.10 [4]

    11118 Modra (provisional designation 1996 PK) is a Flora asteroid of uncertain composition from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

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    It was discovered on 9 August 1996, by Slovak astronomers Adrián Galád and Dušan Kalmančok at the Modra Observatory in Slovakia, and named for the town Modra where the discovering observatory is located. [2] [8]

    Classification and orbit

    Modra is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest families of stony asteroids. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.1–2.5  AU once every 3 years and 6 months (1,286 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.08 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] A first precovery was taken at ESO's La Silla Observatory in 1991, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 5 years prior to its discovery. [8]

    Rotation period

    In September 2010, a photometric lightcurve analysis of Modra by American astronomer Brian Warner at his Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado, rendered an unambiguous period of 27.12±0.02 hours with a brightness variation of 0.53 in magnitude ( U=3 ). [5] A second lightcurve obtained during the wide-field survey at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory in August 2010, and gave a period of 27.1481±0.0409 hours with an amplitude of 0.42 ( U=2 ). [6]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has a low albedo of 0.05. [4] In agreement, the large-scale survey by Pan-STARRS (PS1) rates it as a dark carbonaceous body. [7] However, the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes a much higher albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the orbital family's largest member and namesake – and groups it to the S-type asteroid. [3] The different albedos of the two spectral classes also translate into divergent estimates for the body's diameter. While CALL calculates 3.7 kilometers, NASA's space-based survey inferred a much larger diameter of 8.7 kilometers. [3] [4]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after both the small historical town of Modra, located in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia, and the Modra Observatory of the Institute of Astronomy at Comenius University, where this asteroid had been discovered. [2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999 ( M.P.C. 36130). [9]

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