12838 Adamsmith
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| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | E. W. Elst |
| Discovery site | La Silla Obs. |
| Discovery date | 9 March 1997 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Adam Smith (moral philosopher)[2] |
| Template:Mp · Template:Mp Template:Mp · Template:Mp | |
| main-belt · Koronis[3] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 30.19 yr (11,026 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.0762 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.6925 AU |
| 2.8843 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0665 |
| 4.90 yr (1,789 days) | |
| 194.63° | |
| Template:Deg2DMS / day | |
| Inclination | 1.1631° |
| 322.05° | |
| 89.801° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 6.16 km (calculated)[3] |
| 10.9090±0.0031 h[4] | |
| 0.24 (assumed)[3] | |
| S[3] | |
| 13.0[1] · 12.70±0.34[5] · 12.770±0.002 (R)[4] · 13.22[3] | |
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12838 Adamsmith, provisional designation Template:Mp, is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 9 March 1997, by Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.[6] It was named after Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith.[2]
Orbit and classification
Adamsmith is a member of the Koronis family, a group of co-planar, stony asteroids in the outer main-belt, named after 158 Koronis. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 11 months (1,789 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.07 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic.[3]
It was first identified as Template:Mp at the discovering observatory in 1987, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 10 years prior to its official discovery observation.[6]
Physical characteristics
In January 2011, a rotational lightcurve of Adamsmith was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 10.9090 hours with a brightness variation of 0.48 magnitude (U=2).[4]
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony Koronian asteroids of 0.24 and calculates a diameter of 6.2 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.22.[3]
Naming
This minor planet was named for the economist Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish moral philosopher and principal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Known for his works The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), he introduced the concept of the division of labour which represents a qualitative increase in productivity, and suggested that self-interest and competition can lead to economic prosperity.[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center 30 July 2007 (M.P.C. 60299).[7]
References
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 12838 Adamsmith (1997 EL55)" (2017-05-05 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (12838) Adamsmith. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 829. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Template:Cite LCDB
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Waszczak, Adam; Chang, Chan-Kao; Ofek, Eran O.; Laher, Russ; Masci, Frank; Levitan, David; et al. (September 2015). "Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry". The Astronomical Journal. 150 (3): 35. arXiv:1504.04041. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...75W. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/75. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Veres, Peter; Jedicke, Robert; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Granvik, Mikael; Bolin, Bryce; et al. (November 2015). "Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results". Icarus. 261: 34–47. arXiv:1506.00762. Bibcode:2015Icar..261...34V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."12838 Adamsmith (1997 EL55)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
External links
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Script error: No such module "webarchive".)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000) – Minor Planet Center
- Template:AstDys
- 12838 Adamsmith at the JPL Small-Body DatabaseTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
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