1793 Zoya

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1793 Zoya
Synodic rotation period
5.75187±0.00001 h[5]
5.751872±0.000005 h[6]
5.753±0.001 h[7]
7.0 h[8]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
0.334±0.047[4]
S[3]
12.20[4] · 12.3[1][3] · 12.31±0.23[9]

1793 Zoya, provisional designation 1968 DW, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 February 1968, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula, and named after World War II partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.[2][10]

Orbit and classification

Zoya is a member of the Flora family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids in the inner main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,211 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic.[1]

First identified as 1932 MC at

Uccle Observatory in 1933, when it was identified as 1933 UV, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 35 years prior to its official discovery observation.[10]

Physical characteristics

Rotation period

In May 2008, a rotational

U=n.a.).[5][6]

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by NASA's

albedo of 0.334,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this asteroid family – and calculates a diameter of 9.41 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.3.[3]

Naming

This

M.P.C. 3297).[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1793 Zoya (1968 DW)" (2017-03-29 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f "LCDB Data for (1793) Zoya". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  5. ^
    doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527573
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  6. ^
    doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527441
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  7. ^
    ISSN 1052-8091
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  8. ^
    Bibcode:1978A&AS...31..361L
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  9. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007
    . Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  10. ^ a b "1793 Zoya (1968 DW)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  11. ISBN 978-3-642-01964-7
    .

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