1689 Floris-Jan

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1689 Floris-Jan
Discovery [1]
Discovered by H. van Gent
Discovery site Johannesburg Obs.
(Leiden Southern Station)
Discovery date16 September 1930
Designations
(1689) Floris-Jan
Named after
Floris-Jan van der Meulen
(Contest Winner) [2]
1930 SO ·1926 PG
1928 DN ·1934 VV
1943 AC ·1949 OF
1949 ON1 ·1949 OY
1951 CW ·1966 BP
main-belt  ·(inner) [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 89.19 yr (32,577 days)
Aphelion 2.9545 AU
Perihelion 1.9461 AU
2.4503 AU
Eccentricity 0.2058
3.84 yr (1,401 days)
218.98°
0° 15m 25.2s / day
Inclination 6.3757°
123.19°
265.10°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions13.743±1.905 km [4]
13.99±0.23 km [5]
16.122±4.950 km [6]
16.21 km (taken) [3]
16.213 km [7]
0.083 h (fragm.) [8]
144.85±0.20 h [9]
145 h [10]
0.1271±0.0508 [6]
0.1353 [7]
0.175±0.050 [4]
0.184±0.007 [5]
S [3]
B–V = 0.685 [1]
U–B = 0.265 [1]
11.74±0.05 [3] [7] [9]  ·11.79±0.19 [11]  ·11.82 [1] [4] [5] [6]

    1689 Floris-Jan, provisional designation 1930 SO, is a stony asteroid and a slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Hendrik van Gent in 1930, it was named after a contest winner of an exhibition at Leiden Observatory.

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    Discovery

    The asteroid was discovered on 16 September 1930, by Dutch astronomer Hendrik van Gent at the Leiden Southern Station, annex to the Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. [12] It was independently discovered by Soviet astronomer Evgenii Skvortsov at the Crimean Simeiz Observatory five days later. [2]

    Orbit and classification

    Floris-Jan orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–3.0  AU once every 3 years and 10 months (1,401 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] First identified as 1926 PG at Simeiz Observatory in 1926, the body's observation arc begins 3 days after its official discovery observation at Johannesburg in 1930. [12]

    Physical characteristics

    Slow rotator

    In the 1980s, photometric lightcurve observations already revealed that Floris-Jan is a very slow rotator with a rotation period of 145 hours and a brightness variation of 0.4 magnitude ( U=3 ). [10] At the time, this six-day period was a new record among all minor planets with a known rotation period, and it was assumed, that Floris-Jan might also be a tumbling asteroid with a non-principal axis rotation. [3] [9]

    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, Floris-Jan measures between 13.74 and 16.12 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.127 and 0.184. [4] [5] [6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with Petr Pravec's revised WISE-data, that is an albedo of 0.135 and a diameter of 16.21 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.74. [3]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named for Floris-Jan van der Meulen, the 5,000th visitor to a 14-day astronomical exhibition at the Leiden Observatory. [2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 March 1973 ( M.P.C. 3470). [13]

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