1663 van den Bos

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1663 van den Bos
001663-asteroid shape model (1663) van den Bos.png
van den Bos modeled from its lightcurve
Discovery [1]
Discovered by H. E. Wood
Discovery site Johannesburg Obs.
Discovery date4 August 1926
Designations
(1663) van den Bos
Named after
 Willem van den Bos
(astronomer) [2]
1926 PE ·1928 DD
1936 OM ·1948 BE
1948 EG1 ·1949 KE
1950 XD ·1963 SC
main-belt  · Flora [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 88.62 yr (32,370 days)
Aphelion 2.6437 AU
Perihelion 1.8357 AU
2.2397 AU
Eccentricity 0.1804
3.35 yr (1,224 days)
33.128°
0° 17m 38.76s / day
Inclination 5.3617°
83.196°
275.24°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions7.58±0.67 km [4]
11.697±0.048 km [5]
12.25 km (derived) [3]
13.537±0.339 km [6]
155±5 h (wrong) [7]
740±10 h [8] [9]
0.1708±0.0178 [5]
0.184±0.025 [6]
0.2045 (derived) [3]
0.255±0.022 [10]
0.406±0.074 [4]
S [3] [11]
11.80 [6]  ·11.86±0.28 [11]  ·11.9 [1] [3]  ·12.2 [4] [5]

    1663 van den Bos, provisional designation 1926 PE, is a stony Florian asteroid and an exceptionally slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 August 1926, by English astronomer Harry Edwin Wood at Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. [12] It was later named after astronomer Willem Hendrik van den Bos. [2]

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    Orbit and classification

    The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, a large group of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–2.6  AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,224 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic. [1]

    In March 2082, van den Bos will pass 29 Amphitrite at a distance of 0.0065 AU (972,000 km).[ citation needed ] The body's observation arc begins with a post-recovery observation taken at Johannesburg in 1936, when it was also identified as 1936 OM, which is a full decade after its official discovery observation from 1926. [12]

    Physical characteristics

    Slow rotator

    In October 2010, a rotational lightcurve of van den Bos was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers Robert Stephens and David Higgins. It gave a rotation period of 740 hours with a brightness variation of 0.80 magnitude ( U=3- ). [8] [9] It is one of the slowest rotating minor planets (see list) and a suspected tumbler, that has a non-principal axis rotation. At the same time, photometric observations at the Shadowbox Observatory gave an alternative, yet ambiguous period of 155 hours with an amplitude of 0.5 magnitude ( U=1 ). [7]

    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, van den Bos measures between 7.58 and 13.54 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.171 and 0.255. [4] [5] [6] [10] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2045 and a diameter of 12.25 kilometers using an absolute magnitude of 11.9. [3]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named in honor of Dutch-born, South African astronomer Willem Hendrik van den Bos (1896–1974), former director of the Union Observatory (1941–1956) and president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa (1943–1955). He made visual micrometric observations and discovered thousands of double stars. [2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1972 ( M.P.C. 3297). [13]

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