4147 Lennon

4147 Lennon
Discovery [1]
Discovered by B. A. Skiff
Discovery site Anderson Mesa Stn.
Discovery date 12 January 1983
Designations
MPC designation 4147 Lennon
Named after
 John Lennon
(musician, The Beatles)[2]
1983 AY · 1971 YG
1980 KA
main-belt · Vestian [3]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 44.48 yr (16,247 days)
Aphelion 2.5532 AU
Perihelion 2.1710 AU
2.3621 AU
Eccentricity 0.0809
3.63 yr (1,326 days)
340.19°
0° 16m 17.4s / day
Inclination 5.7324°
288.58°
302.83°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 5.171±0.087 km[4]
7.13±0.37 km[5]
7.46 km (calculated)[3]
137 h[6]
0.20 (assumed)[3]
0.240±0.049[5]
0.4166±0.0564[4]
V [6]:5 · S [3]
12.90[5]
13.0[1][3][4]
13.63±0.34[7]

    4147 Lennon, provisional designation 1983 AY, is a stony Vestian asteroid and a potentially slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Brian A. Skiff at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station on 12 January 1983.[8]

    The asteroid is a member of the Vesta family, which is named after the main-belt's second largest asteroid, 4 Vesta. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.2–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,326 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.08 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] The first observation was made at Crimea–Nauchnij in 1971, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 12 years prior to its discovery.[8]

    In October 2004, a rotational light-curve was obtained during a photometric survey of V-type asteroids at several observatories in Japan. The fragmentary light-curve gave a very long rotation period of 137 hours with a high brightness variation of 0.6 in magnitude (U=1).[6]

    According to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid measures 5.2 and 7.1 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.24 of 0.42, respectively.[4][5] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an standard albedo for S-type asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 7.5 kilometers.[3] The discrepancy is due to disagreement on the body's spectral type (V or S).

    The minor planet was named in memory of English musician John Lennon (1940–1980), co-founder of The Beatles, one of the most successful bands in the history of popular music, and famous for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the song Imagine.[2] The minor planets 8749 Beatles, 4149 Harrison, 4148 McCartney and 4150 Starr, were named after the band and its three other members. Naming citation was published on 10 April 1990 (M.P.C. 16247).[9]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 4147 Lennon (1983 AY)" (2016-06-09 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    2. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4147) Lennon. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 354. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "LCDB Data for (4147) Lennon". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    4. 1 2 3 4 Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Hand, E.; Bauer, J.; Tholen, D.; et al. (November 2011). "NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results" (PDF). The Astrophysical Journal. 741 (2): 25. arXiv:1109.6407Freely accessible. Bibcode:2011ApJ...741...90M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    5. 1 2 3 4 Masiero, Joseph R.; Mainzer, A. K.; Grav, T.; Bauer, J. M.; Cutri, R. M.; Nugent, C.; et al. (November 2012). "Preliminary Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE 3-Band Cryogenic and Post-cryogenic Observations of Main Belt Asteroids". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 759 (1): 5. arXiv:1209.5794Freely accessible. Bibcode:2012ApJ...759L...8M. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    6. 1 2 3 Hasegawa, S.; Miyasaka, S.; Mito, H.; Sarugaku, Y.; Ozawa, T.; Kuroda, D.; et al. (May 2012). "Lightcurve Survey of V-Type Asteroids. Observations Until 2005" (PDF). Asteroids. arXiv:1204.0548Freely accessible. Bibcode:2012arXiv1204.0548H. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    7. ↑ Veres, Peter; Jedicke, Robert; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Granvik, Mikael; Bolin, Bryce; et al. (November 2015). "Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results". Icarus. 261: 34–47. arXiv:1506.00762Freely accessible. Bibcode:2015Icar..261...34V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    8. 1 2 "4147 Lennon (1983 AY)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
    9. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 10 August 2016.

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