1204 Renzia
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | K. Reinmuth |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 6 October 1931 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 1204 |
1931 TE | |
Mars-crossing[1] | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 84.54 yr (30878 days) |
Aphelion | 2.9279025 AU (438.00798 Gm) |
Perihelion | 1.5987572 AU (239.17067 Gm) |
2.263330 AU (338.5893 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.2936261 |
3.41 yr (1243.7 d) | |
354.37740° | |
0° 17m 22.041s / day | |
Inclination | 1.879755° |
7.581273° | |
313.77273° | |
Earth MOID | 0.586333 AU (87.7142 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.39644 AU (358.502 Gm) |
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.559 |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 11–25 km[2] |
7.885 h (0.3285 d) | |
Sidereal rotation period | 7.885 h[1] |
S[1] | |
11.9[1] | |
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1204 Renzia (1931 TE) is an 11–25 km Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 6, 1931, by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. In 1985, Duncan Steel estimated that this Mars-crossing asteroid had a better chance than average of impacting into Mars.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1204 Renzia (1931 TE)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ Steel, Duncan (1985). "Collisions in the solar systems. II - Asteroid impacts upon Mars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 215: 369–381. Bibcode:1985MNRAS.215..369S. doi:10.1093/mnras/215.3.369.
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