1793 Zoya
| Discovery [1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | T. Smirnova |
| Discovery site | CrAO - Nauchnyj |
| Discovery date | 28 February 1968 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1793 Zoya |
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Named after
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (Hero of the Soviet Union)[2] |
| 1968 DW · 1932 MC 1933 UV · 1946 TC 1949 QX · 1951 AE 1953 VP2 · 1953 VW1 1953 XF · 1969 RP1 |
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| main-belt · Flora [3] | |
| Orbital characteristics [1] | |
| Epoch 27 June 2015 (JD 2457200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 81.98 yr (29,945 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.4405 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.0073 AU |
| 2.2239 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0973 |
| 3.32 yr (1,211 days) | |
| 83.831° | |
| Inclination | 1.5082° |
| 226.01° | |
| 323.14° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 8.35±0.30 km[4] 9.85 km (calculated)[3] |
| 5.753 h[5] 7.0 h[6] |
|
| 0.334±0.047[4] 0.24 (assumed)[3] |
|
| S [3] | |
| 12.3 | |
1793 Zoya, provisional designation 1968 DW, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 February 1968 by Russian female astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, Crimea.[7]
The asteroid is a member of the Flora family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids in the inner main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,211 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.10 and is nearly coplanar to the plane of the ecliptic, inclined by only 2 degrees. It has a rotation period of 5.8 hours[5][6] and an albedo of 0.33 and 0.24, based on preliminary results from the WISE/NEOWISE mission and on assumptions made by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL), respectively.[3][4]
It is named after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Hero of the Soviet Union, partisan who died at the age of 18 during World War II in the Great Patriotic War. The minor planets 2072 Kosmodemyanskaya and 1977 Shura were named in honour of her mother and brother.[2]
References
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External links
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info)
- 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
- 1793 Zoya at the JPL Small-Body Database
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