980 Anacostia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | George Henry Peters |
| Discovery site | Washington, D.C. |
| Discovery date | November 21, 1921 |
| Designations | |
| 1921 W19 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5) | |
| Aphelion | 3.294 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.189 AU |
| 2.741 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.201 |
| 4.539 a | |
| 169.634° | |
| Inclination | 15.882° |
| 286.051° | |
| 69.637° | |
980 Anacostia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by American astronomer George Henry Peters on November 21, 1921.
Measurements using the adaptive optics system at the W. M. Keck Observatory give a diameter of 70 ± 6 km. This is 23% smaller than the diameter estimated from the IRAS observatory data. The size ratio between the major and minor axes is 1.09.[2]
Polarimetric study of this asteroid reveals anomalous properties that suggests the regolith consists of a mixture of low and high albedo material. This may have been caused by fragmentation of an asteroid substrate with the spectral properties of CO3/CV3 carbonaceous chondrites.[3]
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