146 Lucina

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146 Lucina
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Lightcurve-base 3D-model of Lucina on the top with an image of the asteroid on the bottom.
Discovery [1]
Discovered by Alphonse Borrelly
Discovery date8 June 1875
Designations
(146) Lucina
Pronunciation /luːˈsaɪnə/ [2] or as Latin Lūcīna [3]
A875 LC; 1950 CY
Main belt
Orbital characteristics [4] [5]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 130.35 yr (47610 d)
Aphelion 2.89945  AU (433.752  Gm)
Perihelion 2.53641 AU (379.442 Gm)
2.71793 AU (406.597 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.066786
4.48 yr (1636.6 d)
Average orbital speed
18.04 km/s
198.102°
0° 13m 11.863s / day
Inclination 13.0947°
83.9692°
146.982°
Earth  MOID 1.53233 AU (229.233 Gm)
Jupiter  MOID 2.14062 AU (320.232 Gm)
TJupiter 3.319
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 132.21±2.4  km [5]
131.893 km [6]
Mass 2.4×1018 kg
Mean density
2.0 g/cm3
Equatorial surface gravity
0.0369 m/s²
Equatorial escape velocity
0.0699 km/s
18.557  h (0.7732  d)
0.0531±0.002 [5]
0.0496 ± 0.0107 [6]
Temperature ~169 K
C [6] (Tholen)
8.20, [5] 8.277 [6]

    146 Lucina is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 8, 1875, and named after Lucina, the Roman goddess of childbirth. It is large, dark and has a carbonaceous composition. The spectra of the asteroid displays evidence of aqueous alteration. [7]

    Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 1979 and 1981 gave a light curve with a period of 18.54 hours. [8]

    Two stellar occultations by Lucina have been observed so far, in 1982 and 1989. During the first event, a possible small satellite with an estimated 5.7 km diameter was detected at a distance of 1,600 km from 146 Lucina. [9] A 1992 search using a CCD failed to discover a satellite larger than 0.6 km, although it may have been obscured by occultation mask. [10] Further evidence for a satellite emerged in 2003, this time based on astrometric measurements. [11]

    References

    1. ↑ "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets". Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2004.
    2. ↑ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
    3. ↑ Lucina
    4. ↑ "The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database". astorb. Lowell Observatory.
    5. 1 2 3 4 Yeomans, Donald K., "146 Lucina", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory , retrieved 12 May 2016.
    6. 1 2 3 4 Pravec, P.; et al. (May 2012), "Absolute Magnitudes of Asteroids and a Revision of Asteroid Albedo Estimates from WISE Thermal Observations", Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16–20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan, vol. 1667, no. 1667, p. 6089, Bibcode:2012LPICo1667.6089P. See Table 4.
    7. ↑ Fornasier, S.; et al. (February 1999), "Spectroscopic comparison of aqueous altered asteroids with CM2 carbonaceous chondrite meteorites", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, 135: 65−73, Bibcode:1999A&AS..135...65F, doi: 10.1051/aas:1999161 .
    8. ↑ Schober, H. J. (July 1983), "The large C-type asteroids 146 Lucina and 410 Chloris, and the small S-type asteroids 152 Atala and 631 Philippina - Rotation periods and lightcurves", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 53: 71–75, Bibcode:1983A&AS...53...71S.
    9. ↑ Arlot, J. E.; et al. (February 1985), "A possible satellite of (146) Lucina", Icarus, 61 (2): 224–231, Bibcode:1985Icar...61..224A, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(85)90104-6.
    10. ↑ Stern, S. Alan; Barker, Edwin S. (December 1992), "A CCD search for distant satellites of asteroids 3 Juno and 146 Lucina", In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991, pp. 577–581, Bibcode:1992acm..proc..577S.
    11. ↑ Kikwaya, J.-B.; et al. (March 2003), "Does 146 Lucina Have a Satellite? An Astrometric Approach", 34th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 17–21, 2003, League City, Texas, abstract no.1214, p. 1214, Bibcode:2003LPI....34.1214K.


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