3873 Roddy

Carolyn Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.^[3] It was named after American astrogeologist David Roddy.^[2]

Hungaria family, which form the innermost dense concentration of asteroids in the Solar System. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.6–2.1 AU once every 2 years and 7 months (951 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 23° with respect to the ecliptic.^[1] The first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in 1953, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 31 years prior to its discovery.^[3]

SMASS classification, Roddy is a common S-type asteroid. It has also been characterized as a rare L-type asteroid.^[13]

albedo of 0.419 and 0.512, respectively,^[6][7] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 7.1 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.1.^[4]

U=3).^[15] Other lightcurve observations gave a similar period between 2.478 and 2.486 hours.^{[5][8][9][10][11][12]}

asteroid moon orbiting Roddy, its existence is still uncertain as of 2016. Based on one observation/solution, the satellite has an orbital period of 19.24±0.02 hours and measures about 27% of Roddy's diameter, which is slightly less than 2 kilometers (D_s/D_p ratio of 0.27±0.02). However, an alternative orbital period of 23.8 hours is also possible.^[5]

M.P.C. 15574).^[16]