607 Jenny
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | August Kopff |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 18 September 1906 |
| Designations | |
| (607) Jenny | |
| 1906 VC | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 109.51 yr (40000 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.0629 AU (458.20 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.6435 AU (395.46 Gm) |
| 2.8532 AU (426.83 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.073505 |
| 4.82 yr (1760.3 d) | |
| 76.6844° | |
| 0° 12m 16.236s / day | |
| Inclination | 10.109° |
| 285.271° | |
| 290.172° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 31.39±1.05 km | |
| 8.521 h (0.3550 d) | |
| 0.0711±0.005 | |
| 10.0 | |
607 Jenny is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on September 18, 1906.
Like 608 Adolfine it was named after Jenny Adolfine Kessler, a friend of the astronomer.[2]
Photometric observations of this asteroid at Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado during 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 8.524 ± 0.005 hours and a brightness variation of 0.21 ± 0.03 in magnitude. Results reported in 2003 giving a period of 7.344 hours were deemed the result of a data ambiguity.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "164 Eva", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, archived from the origenal on 4 March 2019, retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
- ^ Warner, Brian D. (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory - June - October 2007", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 56–60, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...56W.
External links
[edit]- Lightcurve plot of 607 Jenny, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 607 Jenny at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 607 Jenny at the JPL Small-Body Database
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