8900 AAVSO

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8900 AAVSO
Discovery  [1]
Discovered by D. di Cicco
Discovery site Sudbury Obs. (817)
Discovery date24 October 1995
Designations
(8900) AAVSO
Named after
 AAVSO
(American Association of Variable Star Observers) [2]
1995 UD2 ·1979 UV
1987 SX16 ·1989 EU2
main-belt  ·(middle)
background
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 37.37 yr (13,651 days)
Aphelion 2.9070 AU
Perihelion 2.1657 AU
2.5364 AU
Eccentricity 0.1461
4.04 yr (1,475 days)
184.05°
0° 14m 38.4s / day
Inclination 8.7319°
232.25°
99.711°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions5.28 km (calculated) [3]
5.792±0.320 km [4] [5]
3.8368±0.0005 h [6]
0.20 (assumed) [3]
0.276±0.038 [4] [5]
S   [3]
13.4 [1]  ·13.75 [3]  ·13.2 [4]  ·13.303±0.004(R) [6]  ·13.84±0.28 [7]

    8900 AAVSO, provisional designation 1995 UD2, is a stony background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 5.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American amateur astronomer Dennis di Cicco at the U.S Sudbury Observatory (817), Massachusetts, on 24 October 1995. [8] The asteroid was named after the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). [2]

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    Orbit and classification

    AAVSO is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–2.9  AU once every 4.04 years (1,475 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 9° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] The first precovery was obtained at Kleť Observatory in 1979, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 16 years prior to its discovery. [8]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), an astronomical pro-am organization that promotes the study of variable stars to both amateur and professional astronomers, maintaining the largest database of variable star observations in the world. [2]

    AAVSO was founded in 1911 by amateur astronomer William Tyler Olcott (1873–1936), based on a suggestion by Edward Charles Pickering's (1846–1919), after whom the minor planet 784 Pickeringia is named. [2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 (M.P.C. 48388). [9]

    Physical characteristics

    Lightcurve

    In May 2010, a rotational lightcurve of AAVSO was obtained at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.8368 hours with a brightness variation of 0.43 in magnitude ( U=2 ). [6]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, AAVSO measures 5.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.28, [4] [5] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 5.3 kilometers. [3]

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    References

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