3015 Candy

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3015 Candy
003015-asteroid shape model (3015) Candy.png
Shape model of Candy from its lightcurve
Discovery  [1]
Discovered by E. Bowell
Discovery site Anderson Mesa Stn.
Discovery date9 November 1980
Designations
(3015) Candy
Named after
 Michael P. Candy
(British astronomer) [2]
1980 VN ·1974 VL2
1974 XC ·1984 HS
main-belt  ·(outer)  [1] [3]
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 52.17 yr (19,056 days)
Aphelion 3.9747 AU
Perihelion 2.7983 AU
3.3865 AU
Eccentricity 0.1737
6.23 yr (2,276 days)
0.7451°
0° 9m 29.52s / day
Inclination 17.402°
38.162°
300.96°
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
24.517±0.470  km [4] [5]
33.54 km (calculated) [3]
4.6249±0.0001  h [6]
4.625±0.001 h [7]
4.62501±0.00004 h [8]
4.62516 h [9] [10]
4.625223 h [11]
  • (142.0°, −26.0°) (λ1/β1) [11]
  • (346.0°, −70.0°) (λ2/β2) [11]
0.057 (assumed) [3]
0.1067±0.0173 [4] [5]
C (assumed) [3]
11.1 [1] [3] [5]  ·11.14±0.34 [12]

    3015 Candy (prov. designation: 1980 VN) is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers (16 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 9 November 1980, by British-American astronomer Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station in Flagstaff, Arizona. [13] The asteroid was named after British astronomer Michael P. Candy. [2]

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    Orbit and classification

    Candy is a background asteroid that does not belong to any known asteroid family. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.8–4.0  AU once every 6 years and 3 months (2,276 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.17 and an inclination of 17° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Goethe Link Observatory in May 1965, more than 15 years prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa. [13]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after Michael P. Candy (1928–1994) a British astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, who was a director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Perth Observatory. [2] As a long-time astrometrist and orbit computer, he discovered comet C/1960 Y1 (Candy) at Greenwich, as well as the minor planet 3898 Curlewis, 3893 DeLaeter and 3894 Williamcooke. He was also president of IAU's Commission VI. [2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 1986 ( M.P.C. 10845). [14]

    Physical characteristics

    Candy is an assumed carbonaceous C-type asteroid. [3]

    Lightcurves

    Several rotational lightcurves of Candy were obtained from photometric observations by astronomer Maurice Clark. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period between 4.6249 and 4.62516 hours with a brightness variation between 0.50 and 1.05 magnitude ( U=3/3/3/3/3 ). (A high brightness amplitude typically indicates that a body has a non-spheroidal shape.) [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

    A 2016-published lightcurve, using modeled photometric data from the Lowell Photometric Database (LPD), gave a concurring period of 4.625223 hours ( U=2 ), as well as two spin axis of (142.0°, −26.0°) and (346.0°, −70.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β). [11] Clark's spin modeling also suggests that Candy has a retrograde rotation, and a spin axis of (306.0°, 43.0.0°), that is nearly aligned with the body's shortest axis. [10]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Candy measures 24.517 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.1067, [4] [5] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous of 0.057, and calculates a diameter of 33.54 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.1. [3]

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