387 Aquitania

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387 Aquitania
Orbita asteroida 387.png
Orbital diagram
Discovery 
Discovered by F. Courty
Discovery site Bordeaux Obs.
Discovery date5 March 1894
Designations
(387) Aquitania
Pronunciation /ækwɪˈteɪniə/ [1]
Named after
 Aquitaine   [2]
(Roman Gallia Aquitania)
1894 AZ ·1945 NA
1948 BG ·1953 EO1
main-belt  ·(middle)
Postrema   [3]
Symbol Aquitania symbol (fixed width).svg
Orbital characteristics   [4]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 123.56 yr (45,132 days)
Aphelion 3.3853 AU
Perihelion 2.0964 AU
2.7409 AU
Eccentricity 0.2351
4.54 yr (1,657 days)
330.99°
0° 13m 1.92s / day
Inclination 18.113°
128.24°
157.14°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions97.33±3.42 km [5]
100.51±2.9 km [6]
105.06±1.34 km [7]
Mass 1.8×1018 kg [8] [9]
Mean density
3.27 ± 1.11 g/cm3 [10]
24.144  h (1.0060  d) [4]
0.1900±0.011 [6]
Tholen = S   [4]
SMASS = L   [4]
B–V = 0.881 [4]
U–B = 0.449 [4]
7.41 [4] [5] [6] [7]  ·7.44±0.02 [11] [12]
    Orbital diagram depicting Aquitania's 18deg inclination. Orbita asteroida 387 (naklon).png
    Orbital diagram depicting Aquitania's 18° inclination.

    Aquitania (minor planet designation: 387 Aquitainia), provisional designation 1894 AZ, is a Postremian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 101 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Fernand Courty at the Bordeaux Observatory in 1894, it was named for the French region of Aquitaine, the former province of Gallia Aquitania in the ancient Roman Empire. [2]

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    Discovery

    Aquitania was discovered by French astronomer Fernand Courty at the Bordeaux Observatory on 5 March 1894. It was second of his two asteroid discoveries. [13] The first was 384 Burdigala.

    Classification and orbit

    Aquitania is the largest member of the Postrema family ( 541 ), [3] a mid-sized central asteroid family of little more than 100 members. [14] : 23  It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.1–3.4  AU once every 4 years and 6 months (1,657 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.24 and an inclination of 18° with respect to the ecliptic. [4]

    Physical characteristics

    In the Tholen and SMASS classification, Aquitania is an S-type and L-type asteroid, respectively. [4] Several rotational lightcurves of Aquitania have been obtained from photometric observations since the 1980s. Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 24.144 hours with a brightness variation between 0.09 and 0.25 magnitude ( U=3 ).

    According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Aquitania measures between 97.33 and 105.06 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.174 and 0.203. [5] [6] [7]

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts the results obtained by IRAS, that is an albedo of 0.19 and a diameter of 100.51 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 7.44. [11]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named for the Latin name of the French region of Aquitaine. Under Caesar the Roman region of Gallia Aquitania consisted of the country between the Pyrenees mountains and Garonne river. The region was later expanded to the Loire and Allier rivers under Augustus. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ( H 42 ). [2]

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    References

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