4217 Engelhardt

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4217 Engelhardt
Discovery  [1]
Discovered by C. Shoemaker
Discovery site Palomar Obs.
Discovery date24 January 1988
Designations
(4217) Engelhardt
Named after
 Wolf von Engelhardt
(German mineralogist) [2]
1988 BO2 ·1944 RL
1951 RY1 ·1970 AA
main-belt  · Phocaea   [3] [4]
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 72.73 yr (26,563 days)
Aphelion 2.8045 AU
Perihelion 1.8246 AU
2.3145 AU
Eccentricity 0.2117
3.52 yr (1,286 days)
272.23°
0° 16m 47.64s / day
Inclination 23.129°
355.44°
348.79°
Known satellites 1 (P: 36.03 h) [5] [lower-alpha 1]
Physical characteristics
Dimensions7.34±1.36 km [6]
8.742±0.356 km [7] [8]
9.16±1.0 km [9]
9.24 km (derived) [3]
3.066±0.001 h [10]
3.0661±0.0002 h [5] [lower-alpha 1]
0.2108±0.052 [9]
0.231±0.046 [7] [8]
0.2489 (derived) [3]
0.37±0.17 [6]
S   [3] [11]
12.10±0.67 [11]  ·12.20 [6]  ·12.3 [1] [3]  ·12.50 [7] [9]

    4217 Engelhardt, provisional designation 1988 BO2, is a stony Phocean asteroid and a potentially binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 January 1988, by American astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory in California, and later named after German mineralogist Wolf von Engelhardt. [12]

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    Classification and orbit

    Engelhardt is a stony S-type asteroid and a member of the Phocaea family ( 701 ). [4] It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.8  AU once every 3 years and 6 months (1,286 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 23° with respect to the ecliptic. [1]

    It was first identified as 1944 RL at Turku Observatory in 1944, extending the body's observation arc by 44 years prior to its official discovery observation at Palomar. [12] It will pass about 0.0017 AU (250,000 km) from Earth threatening asteroid (29075) 1950 DA in 2736. [13]

    Physical characteristics

    Lightcurves

    In November 2004, a rotational lightcurve of Engelhardt was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian Warner at this Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado. [lower-alpha 1] Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 3.066 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.16 magnitude ( U=3 ). [10]

    In December 2011, a follow-up observation by Warner gave a period of 3.0661 hours with 0.18 amplitude ( U=3 ). [5] Due to a couple of supposed occultation and eclipsing events, Warner also suspects that Engelhardt might by a binary system with a minor-planet moon orbiting it every 36.03 hours. The result, however, is far from conclusive. [lower-alpha 1]

    Diameter and albedo

    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, Engelhardt measures between 7.34 and 9.16 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between and 0.231 and 0.37. [7] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2489 and a diameter of 9.24 kilometers with on an absolute magnitude of 12.3. [3]

    Naming

    Baltic German geologist and mineralogist Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008), expert on impact craters and related mineral metamorphism. He was a professor at the University of Tübingen and a longtime director of its Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography. [2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ( M.P.C. 18456). [14]

    Notes

    1. 1 2 3 4 Lightcurve plot of (4217) Engelhardt, at the Palmer Divide Observatory, by B. D. Warner (2011). The first plot gives a rotation period of 3.0661 hours. The second plot has that period subtracted and gives a possible orbital period of 36.03 hours for the presumed satellite.

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