12564 Ikeller

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12564 Ikeller
Discovery [1]
Discovered by W. Bickel
Discovery site Bergisch Gladbach Obs.
Discovery date22 September 1998
Designations
(12564) Ikeller
Named after
Ingeborg Bickel–Keller
(discoverer's wife) [2]
1998 SO49 ·1988 RA7
1991 EG5 ·1993 SK13
main-belt  · Koronis [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 27.90 yr (10,190 days)
Aphelion 2.9423 AU
Perihelion 2.7273 AU
2.8348 AU
Eccentricity 0.0379
4.77 yr (1,743 days)
67.076°
0° 12m 23.4s / day
Inclination 1.6200°
180.04°
117.88°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions5.17 km (calculated) [3]
5.369±0.259 km [4] [5]
7.0321±0.0196 h (R) [6]
7.0423±0.0196 h (S) [6]
0.222±0.049 [5]
0.2225±0.0495 [4]
0.24 (assumed) [3]
S [3]
13.6 [1] [3] [4]  ·13.644±0.003(R) [6]  ·14.16±0.23 [7]  ·14.282±0.007(S) [6]

    12564 Ikeller, provisional designation 1998 SO49, is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

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    The asteroid was discovered by German amateur astronomer Wolf Bickel at his private Bergisch Gladbach Observatory on 22 September 1998. It was named after the discoverer's wife, Ingeborg Bickel–Keller. [2]

    Orbit and classification

    Ikeller is a member of the Koronis family, a group of stony asteroids in the outer main-belt named after 158 Koronis. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–2.9  AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,743 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic. [1]

    The body's observation arc begins 10 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its identification as 1988 RA7 at ESO's La Silla Observatory in September 1988. [2]

    Physical characteristics

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Ikeller measures 5.4 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.22, [4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for Koronian asteroids of 0.24 and thus calculates a smaller diameter of 5.2 kilometers, as the higher the albedo (reflectivity), the smaller a body's diameter at a certain absolute magnitude (brightness). [3]

    Lightcurve

    In August 2012, a photometric lightcurve of Ikeller was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7.0423 hours with a brightness variation of 0.44 magnitude ( U=2 ). [6]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his wife, Ingeborg Bickel–Keller (born 1941). [2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 ( M.P.C. 86713). [8]

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