3015 Candy
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | E. Bowell |
| Discovery date | 9 November 1980 |
| Designations | |
| 2148 P-L | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 18583 days (50.88 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.9717 AU (594.16 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.7988 AU (418.69 Gm) |
| 3.3852 AU (506.42 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.17325 |
| 6.23 yr (2275.0 d) | |
| 265.762° | |
| 0° 9m 29.664s / day | |
| Inclination | 17.403° |
| 38.165° | |
| 300.988° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.83729 AU (274.855 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.68972 AU (252.779 Gm) |
| TJupiter | 3.053 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 4.625 h (0.1927 d) | |
| 11.1 | |
3015 Candy is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.835 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.143 and an orbital period of 2285 days (6.26 years).[1] Spin modeling suggests it has a rotation period of 4.63519895 h with a retrograde rotation, and the spin axis is nearly aligned with the shortest axis of the object.[2]
The asteroid was discovered on November 9, 1980 by E. Bowell at Lowell Observatory.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ Clark, Maurice (January 2016), "Shape Modelling of Asteriods 1708 Polit, 2036 Sheragul, and 3015 Candy", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 43 (1): 80−86, Bibcode:2016MPBu...43...80C.
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