9963 Sandage

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9963 Sandage
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Orbits of Sandage (blue), the inner planets (red) and Jupiter (outermost)
Discovery  [1]
Discovered by E. F. Helin
Discovery site Palomar Obs.
Discovery date9 January 1992
Designations
(9963) Sandage
Named after
 Allan Sandage
(American astronomer) [2]
1992 AN ·1976 NH
1989 CK6
main-belt  · Phocaea   [3] [4]
Orbital characteristics   [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 28.13 yr (10,276 days)
Aphelion 2.9982 AU
Perihelion 1.6833 AU
2.3408 AU
Eccentricity 0.2809
3.58 yr (1,308 days)
132.58°
0° 16m 30.72s / day
Inclination 23.461°
116.97°
241.14°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions5.45 km (calculated) [3]
6.371±0.174 km [5] [6]
4.6502±0.0008 h [7]
4.65053±0.00013 h [8]
0.158±0.025 [5] [6]
0.23 (assumed) [3]
S   [3]
12.9 [1]  ·12.95±0.25 [9]  ·13.080±0.002(R) [7]  ·13.53 [3]  ·13.6 [5]

    9963 Sandage, provisional designation 1992 AN, is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.

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    It was discovered by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at the Palomar Observatory in California on 9 January 1992, and later named after American astronomer Allan Sandage. [2] [10]

    Orbit and classification

    Sandage is a stony member of the Phocaea family ( 701 ), [4] a group of asteroids with similar orbital characteristics. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.7–3.0  AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,308 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.28 and an inclination of 23° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] First identified as 1976 NH at Crimea–Nauchnij in 1976, the body's observation arc begins at the German Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in 1989, or 3 years prior to its official discovery observation at Palomar. [10]

    Physical characteristics

    Rotation period

    Two rotational lightcurves of Sandage were obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory and at Texas Tech's Preston Gott Observatory in November 2011 and June 2016, respectively. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 4.65 hours with a high brightness variation of 0.56 and 0.43 in magnitude, respectively ( U=2/3- ). [7] [8]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Sandage measures 6.4 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.16, [5] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.23 – derived from the family's largest member and namesake, 25 Phocaea – and calculates a diameter of 5.5 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.53. [3]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after American astronomer Allan Sandage (1926–2010), a worldwide known expert on stellar astronomy and observational cosmology, who worked at Palomar and Mount Wilson Observatory. [2] Sandage determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and also discovered the first quasar. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 September 2001 ( M.P.C. 43381). [11]

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