1180 Rita

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1180 Rita
Discovery [1]
Discovered by K. Reinmuth
Discovery site Heidelberg Obs.
Discovery date9 April 1931
Designations
(1180) Rita
Named after
unknown [2]
1931 GE ·1929 CM
1953 AH ·1957 UF1
A907 GG ·A908 KA
A916 LA
main-belt  ·(outer) [1]  · Hilda [3] [4]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 109.98 yr (40,172 days)
Aphelion 4.6127 AU
Perihelion 3.3574 AU
3.9851 AU
Eccentricity 0.1575
7.96 yr (2,906 days)
209.15°
0° 7m 26.04s / day
Inclination 7.1985°
88.336°
209.12°
Jupiter  MOID 0.6111 AU
Physical characteristics
82.72 km (calculated) [4]
97 km [1]
97.63±2.30 km [5]
9 h [6]
9.605±0.006 h [7]
12 h [8]
13.090±0.002 h [lower-alpha 1]
14.72 h [9]
14.902 h [10]
20.496±0.005 h [lower-alpha 2]
0.041±0.002 [5]
0.044±0.008 [11]
0.048 [1]
0.057 (assumed) [4]
0.058±0.009 [12]
Tholen = P [1]  · P [4] [11]
B–V = 0.682 [1]  ·0.670±0.010 [lower-alpha 2]
U–B = 0.216 [1]
V–R = 0.440±0.010 [lower-alpha 2]
9.14 [1] [4] [5]  ·9.17±0.19 [13]

    1180 Rita, provisional designation 1931 GE, is a dark and spheroidal Hildian asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 97 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 April 1931, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. [3] Any reference of its later name, Rita, is unknown. [2]

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    Orbit and classification

    Rita belongs to the orbital Hilda group which is located in the outermost part of the main-belt. [4] Asteroids in this dynamical group have semi-major axis between 3.7 and 4.2  AU and stay in a 3:2 resonance with the gas giant Jupiter. Rita, however, is a background asteroid and not a member of the (collisional) Hilda family ( 101 ). [14] Hildian asteroids are thought to have originated from the Kuiper belt.

    The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.4–4.6  AU once every 7 years and 12 months (2,906 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. [1]

    It was first observed as A907 GG at Heidelberg in 1907. The body's observation arc begins at Heidelberg in 1908, when it was identified as A908 KA, approximately 23 years prior to its official discovery observation. [3]

    Physical characteristics

    In the Tholen taxonomy, Rita is a dark and reddish P-type asteroid. [1] The P-type asteroids are some of the darkest objects in the Solar System.

    Rotation period

    Since 1983, several rotational lightcurves of Rita have been obtained from photometric observations. Lightcurve analysis gave a wide range of divergent rotation periods between 9 and 20.5 hours. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [lower-alpha 2] The Light Curve Data Base adopts a period of 13.090 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.06 magnitude. Bodies with such a low brightness variation are typically of a spherical rather than elongated shape. The lightcurve was obtained in January 2017, by American astronomer Brian Warner at the Center for Solar System Studies in California ( U=2 ). [lower-alpha 1]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Rita measures 97 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.041 and 0.058. [5] [11] [12] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous, outer main-belt asteroids of 0.057, and calculates a diameter of 82.72 kilometers with on an absolute magnitude of 9.14. [4]

    Naming

    Any reference of this minor planet's name to a person or occurrence is unknown. [2]

    Unknown meaning

    Among the many thousands of named minor planets, Rita is one of 120 asteroids, for which no official naming citation has been published. All of these low-numbered asteroids have numbers between 164 Eva and 1514 Ricouxa and were discovered between 1876 and the 1930s, predominantly by astronomers Auguste Charlois, Johann Palisa, Max Wolf and Karl Reinmuth. [15]

    Notes

    1. 1 2 Warner (2017) web: lightcurve plot of 1180 Rita – rotation period 13.090±0.002 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.06±0.01 magnitude. No quality code of 2. Observed between 12 December 2016 and 26 January 2017, with a total of 304 data points. Summary figures at the Light Curve Data Base.
    2. 1 2 3 4 Slyusarev (2012) web: rotation period 20.496±0.005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.05 magnitude. No quality code determined. Color Indices for BV and VR are 0.670±0.010 and 0.440±0.010, respectively. Summary figures at the Light Curve Data Base.

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