1996 Adams

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1996 Adams
Synodic rotation period
3.27±0.02 h[9]
3.311±0.001 h[a]
3.31138±0.00006 h[10]
3.316±0.079 h[b] h
3.560 h[4]
0.1405±0.0118[8]
0.177±0.014[6]
0.183±0.053[7]
0.21 (assumed)[3]
0.395±0.066[5]
S[3]
11.6[1][3][5] · 11.06±0.14[11] · 12.1[6][8]

1996 Adams, provisional designation 1961 UA, is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 October 1961, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.[12] It was later named after mathematician John Couch Adams.[2]

Classification and orbit

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) classifies Adams as a member of the Eunomia family, a large group of stony S-type asteroid and the most prominent family in the intermediate main-belt. However, based on its concurring orbital elements, Alvarez-Candal from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, groups the asteroid into the Maria family, which is named after 170 Maria (also see 9175 Graun).[4]: 389 

Adams orbits the Sun in the

Johannesburg Observatory. It first used observation was a precovery made at the discovering observatory just ten days prior to the official discovery observation.[12]

Physical characteristics

Several rotational

U=2+/1/3).[4][9][b]

According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese

albedo between 0.141 and 0.395.[5][6][7][8] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.21 – derived from 15 Eunomia, the family's largest member and namesake – and calculates a diameter of 13.9 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.6.[3]

Naming

This

M.P.C. 4237).[15]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Mazzone (2011) web: rotation period 3.311±0.001 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.44 mag. Summary figures for (1996) Adams at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)
  2. ^ a b Aznar (2011) web: web: rotation period 3.316±0.079 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.6 mag. Summary figures for (1996) Adams at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1996 Adams (1961 UA)" (2017-06-05 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f "LCDB Data for (1996) Adams". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.008
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  5. ^
    doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  6. ^
    doi:10.1093/pasj/63.5.1117. (online, AcuA catalog p. 153
    )
  7. ^
    doi:10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/121
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  8. ^
    doi:10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90
    .
  9. ^
    doi:10.1088/0004-6256/147/3/56
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  10. ^
    ISSN 1052-8091
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  11. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  12. ^ a b "1996 Adams (1961 UA)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  13. ISSN 1052-8091
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  14. ISSN 1052-8091
    . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  15. ISBN 978-3-642-01964-7
    .

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