697402 Ao

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697402 Ao
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Discovery  [1]
Discovered by COIAS
Discovery site Maunakea
Discovery date23 January 2017
Designations
(697402) Ao
Named after
Ao Manaka  [1]
(comic/animation character)
2017 BX232
main-belt
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 31 March 2024 (JD 2460400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 6654 days
Aphelion 3.518 AU
Perihelion 2.940 AU
3.229 AU
Eccentricity 0.0895423
5.8 yr
327.27995°
0° 10m 11.416s / day
Inclination 8.94156°
190.52888°
78.85772°
Physical characteristics
17.09

    (697402) Ao, provisional designation 2017 BX232, is an outer main-belt asteroid. It was discovered on 23 January 2017, by the citizen science project Come On! Impacting ASteroids (COIAS) [1] using archival data from the Subaru Telescope, [2] which was first reported to the Minor Planet Center in February 2024. [3]

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    Orbit

    Orbit of (697402) Ao Orbit of (697402) Ao.jpg
    Orbit of (697402) Ao

    Ao is an Outer Main-belt Asteroid [4] in a heliocentric orbit with a semi-major axis of about 3.2 AU in a relatively circular orbit with an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of about 9 degrees. It orbits the Sun every 5.8 years. [1]

    Discovery and Naming

    Animation of the blinking images of asteroid (697402) Ao. Ao-animation.gif
    Animation of the blinking images of asteroid (697402) Ao.

    The first observation of Ao was on 25 March 2006 by Mt. Lemmon Survey. [1] The asteroid was also observed and reported in later years, however, only in late 2016 and 2017, it has been observed for multiple nights in a single opposition, which is how the Minor Planet Center determines the discovery opposition. [5] However, these observations made using Subaru Telescope were not reported until February 2024 through the web-based citizen science project Come On! Impacting ASteroids (COIAS). Between years 2017 and 2024, other observations were also made, none of which provided multiple night observations in a single opposition. Multiple astrometric measurement reports through the COIAS project belonging to observations dated 2017 therefore became the earliest reports of multiple-night observations of the asteroid within a single opposition, determining the discovery observations. The asteroid was located in these images by using a digital blinking and moving object detection method. [6]

    After the astrometric measurements belonging to 2017 observations were identified to belong to the same object, a provisional designation 2017 BX232 was assigned to the object. After its orbital uncertainty parameter dropped to 0, the asteroid was numbered (697402) and the discovery credit was assigned to Subaru Telescope and later to the citizen science project COIAS.

    For the naming of the asteroid, the COIAS development team and the citizen scientists who have taken part in the astrometric measurements of (697402) has made a discussion. [7] It was decided to name the asteroid after the fictional character Ao Manaka, who appears as a main character in the comic/animation Asteroid in Love created by author Quro. This decision is explained in the naming citation as follows:

    Ao Manaka is a character in the comic/animation Asteroid in Love created by Japanese manga artist Quro. Ao and her friends enjoy Earth Science Club activities in their high school with a dream of naming an asteroid “Ao.” The work encouraged many readers to study Earth and planetary sciences with its accurate depiction of celestial objects and geology. [1]

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    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "697402 Ao (2017 BX232)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
    2. ↑ "About COIAS". COIAS. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
    3. ↑ @coias_t09 (3 September 2024). "【(697402) Ao の命名までの経緯】" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    4. ↑ "697402 (2017 BX232)". JPL Solar System Dynamics. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
    5. ↑ "MPEC 2010-U20 : EDITORIAL NOTICE". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
    6. ↑ "COIAS How to Use". COIAS. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
    7. ↑ @coias_t09 (3 September 2024). "Asteroid (697402) has been named Ao" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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