53 Kalypso
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Karl Theodor Robert Luther |
| Discovery date | April 4, 1858 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Calypso |
| Main belt | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5) | |
| Aphelion | 471.807 Gm (3.154 AU) |
| Perihelion | 311.998 Gm (2.086 AU) |
| 391.903 Gm (2.620 AU) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.204 |
| 1548.736 d (4.24 a) | |
Average orbital speed | 18.21 km/s |
| 98.113° | |
| Inclination | 5.153° |
| 143.813° | |
| 312.330° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 115.4 km[2] |
| Mass | (5.63 ± 5.00) × 1018 kg[3] |
Mean density | 8.28 ± 7.54[3] g/cm3 |
| 0.0323 m/s² | |
| 0.0610 km/s | |
| 9.036[4] h | |
| Albedo | 0.040[2][5] |
| Temperature | ~172 K |
| 8.81[2] | |
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53 Kalypso /kəˈlɪpsoʊ/ is a large and very dark main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Robert Luther on April 4, 1858 at Düsseldorf.[1] It is named after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology, a name it shares with Calypso, a moon of Saturn.
The orbit of 53 Kalypso places it in a mean motion resonance with the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The computed Lyapunov time for this asteroid is 19,000 years, indicating that it occupies a chaotic orbit that will change randomly over time because of gravitational perturbations of the planets.[6]
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2005–06 gave a light curve with a period of 18.075 ± 0.005 hours and a brightness variation of 0.14 in magnitude.[7] In 2009, a photometric study from a different viewing angle was performed at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, yielding a rotation period of 9.036 ± 0.001 with a brightness variation of 0.14 ± 0.02 magnitude. This is exactly half of the 2005-06 result. The author of the earlier study used additional data observation that favored the 9.036 hour period. The discrepancy was deemed a consequence of viewing the asteroid from different longitudes.[4]
Kalypso has been studied by radar.[8]
References
- 1 2 "Numbered Minor Planets 1–5000", Discovery Circumstances, IAU Minor Planet center, retrieved 2013-04-07.
- 1 2 3 4 Yeomans, Donald K., "53 Kalypso", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2013-04-12.
- 1 2 Carry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids", Planetary and Space Science, 73, pp. 98–118, arXiv:1203.4336
, Bibcode:2012P&SS...73...98C, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009. See Table 1. - 1 2 Pilcher, Frederick (April 2010), "Rotation Period Determination for 53 Kalypso", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 37 (2), pp. 75–76, Bibcode:2010MPBu...37...75P.
- ↑ Asteroid Data Sets
- ↑ Šidlichovský, M. (1999), Svoren, J.; Pittich, E. M.; Rickman, H., eds., "Resonances and chaos in the asteroid belt", Evolution and source regions of asteroids and comets : proceedings of the 173rd colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, August 24–28, 1998, pp. 297–308, Bibcode:1999esra.conf..297S.
- ↑ Pray, Donald P.; et al. (December 2006), "Lightcurve analysis of asteroids 53, 698, 1016, 1523, 1950, 4608, 5080 6170, 7760, 8213, 11271, 14257, 15350 and 17509", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 33 (4), pp. 92–95, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...92P.
- ↑ "Radar-Detected Asteroids and Comets". NASA/JPL Asteroid Radar Research. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
External links
- Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Ephemeris
- 53 Kalypso at the JPL Small-Body Database
