49777 Cappi

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49777 Cappi
Discovery  [1]
Discovered by P. G. Comba
Discovery site Prescott Obs.
Discovery date2 December 1999
Designations
(49777) Cappi
Named after
Margaret Comba
(discoverer's wife) [2]
1999 XS ·2001 KD31
main-belt  ·(inner)  [3]
background   [4]
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 24.96 yr (9,115 days)
Aphelion 2.5138 AU
Perihelion 2.1982 AU
2.3560 AU
Eccentricity 0.0670
3.62 yr (1,321 days)
183.85°
0° 16m 21s / day
Inclination 4.4688°
237.61°
341.93°
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
1.85 km (calculated) [3]
5.9389±0.0018  h [5]
0.20 (assumed) [3]
S (assumed) [3]
15.6 [1]  ·15.92±0.23 [6]  ·15.575±0.010(R) [5]  ·16.02 [3]

    49777 Cappi (provisional designation 1999 XS) is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter.

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    The asteroid was discovered on 2 December 1999, by Italian–American astronomer Paul Comba at the Prescott Observatory in Arizona, United States. [7] It was named after the discoverer's wife, Margaret Capitola Sonntag Comba. [2]

    Orbit and classification

    Cappi is a non-family from the main belt's background population. [4] It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 2.2–2.5  AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,321 days; semi-major axis of 2.36 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.07 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. [1]

    The asteroid's observation arc begins 8 years prior to its official discovery observation, with a precovery taken by the Steward Observatory's Spacewatch survey at Kitt Peak in September 1991. [7]

    Physical characteristics

    Cappi is an assumed stony S-type asteroid. [3]

    Rotation and shape

    In September 2013, a rotational lightcurve of Cappi was obtained from photometric observation taken in the R-band at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. It showed a rotation period of 5.9389 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.78 magnitude ( U=2 ), indicating a non-spheroidal shape. [5]

    Diameter and albedo estimate

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 1.85 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 16.02. [3]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after Margaret Capitola Sonntag Comba (born 1940), a psychologist and art therapist by profession, faculty member at Prescott College, and wife of the discoverer. [7] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 2004 (M.P.C. 51981). [8]

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