![]() Shape model of Tselina from its lightcurve | |
Discovery [1] | |
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Discovered by | T. Smirnova |
Discovery site | Crimean Astrophysical Obs. |
Discovery date | 13 June 1969 |
Designations | |
(2111) Tselina | |
Named after | Virgin Lands Campaign (agricultural program) [2] |
1969 LG ·1928 RS 1928 SO ·1951 AR1 1968 HB1 ·1975 RE 1976 YF | |
main-belt ·(outer) Eos [3] [4] | |
Orbital characteristics [1] | |
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 48.47 yr (17,703 days) |
Aphelion | 3.3041 AU |
Perihelion | 2.7299 AU |
3.0170 AU | |
Eccentricity | 0.0952 |
5.24 yr (1,914 days) | |
318.00° | |
0° 11m 17.16s / day | |
Inclination | 10.503° |
167.17° | |
232.54° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean diameter | 22.773±0.247 km [5] 22.830±0.208 km [6] 24.54±2.8 km [7] 33.02±0.64 km [8] |
6.563±0.001 h [9] | |
0.130±0.006 [8] 0.1938±0.054 [7] 0.2258±0.0251 [6] 0.226±0.027 [10] | |
Tholen = S [1] · S [3] B–V = 0.799 [1] U–B = 0.463 [1] | |
10.45 [1] [3] [6] [8] ·10.730±0.001(R) [11] | |
2111 Tselina (prov. designation: 1969 LG) is a stony Eos asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 13 June 1969, by Soviet astronomer Tamara Smirnova at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula. [12] The S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 6.6 hours and measures approximately 23 kilometers (14 miles) in diameter. It was later named after the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign. [2]
Tselina is a member of the Eos family ( 606 ), the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 asteroids. [4] [13] : 23 It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,914 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] In 1929, Tselina was first observed as 1928 RS and 1928 SO by the German and Belgian observatories at Hamburg and Uccle, respectively. The body's observation arc begins at the discovering observatory in 1968, or one year prior to its official discovery. [12]
This minor planet was named after the tselina lands to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign. [2] The campaign was launched by Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, with the intention to significantly increase the agricultural production in the USSR. The word "tselina" (or tseliny) means "virgin soil". The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ( M.P.C. 5283 ). [14]
In the Tholen classification, Tselina is a common, stony S-type asteroid. [1]
In September 2001, a rotational lightcurve of Tselina was obtained from photometric observations by French amateur astronomer Laurent Bernasconi. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 6.563±0.001 hours with a brightness variation of 0.17 magnitude ( U=3 ). [9] In September 2012, observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory, California, gave a concurring period of 6.562±0.0021 hours with an amplitude of 0.29 magnitude ( U=2 ). [11]
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Tselina measures between 22.773 and 33.02 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.13 and 0.226. [5] [6] [7] [8] [10] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with the results obtained by IRAS, that is, an albedo of 0.1938 and a diameter of 24.54 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 10.45. [3]
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1032 Pafuri, provisional designation 1924 SA, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 65 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 May 1924, by English astronomer Harry Edwin Wood at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa. The asteroid was named for the river in the Pafuri Triangle in South Africa, created by the confluence of the Limpopo and Levubu rivers. The body's spectral type and rotation period are still poorly determined.
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1118 Hanskya is a large background asteroid, approximately 77 kilometers in diameter, located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt. Discovered by Sergey Belyavsky and Nikolaj Ivanov in 1927, it was named after Russian astronomer Aleksey Hansky. The presumed dark C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 15.6 hours.
1132 Hollandia, provisional designation 1929 RB1, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 27 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 September 1929, by Dutch astronomer Hendrik van Gent at Leiden Southern Station, annex to the Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. It was named for the region Holland in the Netherlands.
1240 Centenaria, provisional designation 1932 CD, is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 60 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 February 1932, by astronomer Richard Schorr at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg, Germany. The assumed C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 11.3 hours. It was named for the 100th anniversary of the discovering observatory.
2054 Gawain, provisional designation 4097 P-L, is a dark and elongated asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers in diameter. Discovered during the Palomar–Leiden survey at Palomar Observatory in 1960, the asteroid was later named after Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
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