4332 Milton

Milton
Discovery
Discovered by Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Discovery site Palomar
Discovery date 5 September 1983
Designations
MPC designation 4332
1983 RC
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 29831 days (81.67 yr)
Aphelion 3.3990585 AU (508.49191 Gm)
Perihelion 1.7702583 AU (264.82687 Gm)
2.584658 AU (386.6593 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.3150900
4.16 yr (1517.8 d)
278.11152°
 14m 13.89s / day
Inclination 19.16913°
166.00170°
198.44808°
Earth MOID 0.772529 AU (115.5687 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.06423 AU (308.804 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.277
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
5.77 ± 0.3 km
3.2978 h (0.13741 d)
0.2306 ± 0.028
12.8

    4332 Milton (1983 RC) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 5 September 1983 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar and named for astrogeologist Daniel J. Milton (28 July 1934 -).

    Photometric observations during 2008 showed a rotation period of 3.2978 ± 0.0003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.30 ± 0.05 in magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. "4332 Milton (1983 RC)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
    2. Oey, Julian (October 2009), "Lightcurve Analysis of Asteroids from Leura and Kingsgrove Observatory in the Second Half of 2008", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 36 (4): 162164, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36..162O

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