3067 Akhmatova

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3067 Akhmatova
Discovery 
Synodic rotation period
3.68589±0.00004 h[a]
3.68629±0.00003 h[a]
3.6863±0.0006 h[6]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
0.2691±0.0726[5]
0.285±0.060[4]
S[3]
13.0[1][3][5] · 12.947±0.003 (R)[6]

3067 Akhmatova, provisional designation 1982 TE2, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.

The asteroid discovered on 14 October 1982, by Soviet–Russian astronomers Lyudmila Zhuravleva and Lyudmila Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. It was named after Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.[2][7]

Orbit and classification

Akhmatova is a S-type asteroid and a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,229 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic.[1]

It was first identified as 1938 SS at

Turku Observatory in 1938. The asteroid's observation arc begins with its identification as 1962 XV at Goethe Link Observatory in 1962, or 20 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nauchnyj.[7]

Physical characteristics

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by the

albedo of 0.269 and 0.285, respectively,[4][5] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – which derives from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 6.8 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.0.[3]

Rotation period

In December 2009, and May 2012, two rotational

Naming

This

M.P.C. 13174).[8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Pravec (2009): lightcurve plot of (3067) Akhmatova with a rotation period 3.68629±0.00003 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 magnitude; Pravec (2011) web: rotation period 3.68589±0.00004 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.24 mag. Summary figures at Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3067 Akhmatova (1982 TE2)" (2017-06-04 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  2. ^ .
  3. ^ a b c d e f "LCDB Data for (3067) Akhmatova". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. ^ . Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  5. ^ . Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  6. ^ . Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  7. ^ a b "3067 Akhmatova (1982 TE2)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  8. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

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