1353 Maartje
.png) A three-dimensional model of 1353 Maartje based on its light curve. | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Hendrik van Gent |
| Discovery site | Johannesburg |
| Discovery date | 13 February 1935 |
| Designations | |
| 1353 | |
| 1935 CU | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 95.61 yr (34921 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.2991203 AU (493.54137 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.7223385 AU (407.25604 Gm) |
| 3.010729 AU (450.3986 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0957877 |
| 5.22 yr (1908.1 d) | |
| 58.543471° | |
| 0° 11m 19.202s / day | |
| Inclination | 9.202416° |
| 211.79068° | |
| 98.625654° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.72775 AU (258.468 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.9523 AU (292.06 Gm) |
| TJupiter | 3.223 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 16.875±1.95 km | |
| 22.930 h (0.9554 d) | |
| 0.1073±0.030 | |
| 9.9 | |
1353 Maartje (1935 CU) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 13, 1935, by Hendrik van Gent at Johannesburg. The asteroid was named after Maartje (Nin) Maria Lindenburg Mekking (1924-2007), daughter of B.C. Mekking (1903-1971), a calculator at the Leiden Observatory.
References
- ^ "1353 Maartje (1935 CU)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
External links
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