724 Hapag

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724 Hapag
Discovery [1]
Discovered by J. Palisa
Discovery site Vienna Obs.
Discovery date21 October 1911
Designations
(724) Hapag
1911 NC, 1988 VG2
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 104.39 yr (38129 d)
Aphelion 3.0675  AU (458.89  Gm)
Perihelion 1.8441 AU (275.87 Gm)
2.4558 AU (367.38 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.24908
3.85 yr (1405.7 d)
73.788°
0° 15m 21.96s / day
Inclination 11.707°
204.27°
205.50°
Physical characteristics
3.1305  h (0.13044  d) [1] [2]
13.9 [1]

    724 Hapag is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt [3] that was found by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911 and named after the German shipping company Hamburg America Line. [3] It was assigned a provisional name of 1911 NC, then became a lost asteroid until it was rediscovered in 1988 as 1988 VG2 by Tsutomu Hioki and N. Kawasato at Okutama, Japan. [4]

    Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 3.1305 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.11 ± 0.01 in magnitude. [2]

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