22740 Rayleigh
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| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | E. W. Elst |
| Discovery site | La Silla Obs. |
| Discovery date | 20 September 1998 |
| Designations | |
Named after | Lord Rayleigh[2] (English physicist) |
| Template:Mp · 1986 SN | |
| main-belt[2] · (outer)[1] background[3] · Zhongguo[4] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 31.32 yr (11,438 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.9380 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.5473 AU |
| 3.2426 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2144 |
| 5.84 yr (2,133 d) | |
| 200.81° | |
| Template:Deg2DMS / day | |
| Inclination | 3.1157° |
| 169.06° | |
| 112.43° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 9.819±2.434 km[5] | |
| 0.088±0.081[5] | |
| 13.4[1] | |
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22740 Rayleigh (provisional designation Template:Mp) is a Zhongguo asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 20 September 1998, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is one of few asteroids located in the 2:1 resonance with Jupiter. The asteroid was named for English physicist and Nobel laureate Lord Rayleigh.[2]
Orbit and classification
Rayleigh is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It is a member of the small group of Zhongguo asteroids, located in the Hecuba gap (2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter) near 3.27 AU. Contrary to the nearby unstable Griqua group, the orbits of the Zhongguos are stable over half a billion years.[3][4]
It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.5–3.9 AU once every 5 years and 10 months (2,133 days; semi-major axis of 3.24 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] The body's observation arc begins with its observations as Template:Mp at Klet Observatory in September 1986, or 13 years prior to its official discovery observation at La Silla.[2]
Physical characteristics
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Rayleigh measures 9.819 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.088.[5]
Rotation period
As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of Rayleigh has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.[1][6]
Naming
This minor planet was named after English physicist John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Lord Rayleigh; 1842–1919), who discovered the noble gas argon and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 (also see list of laureates).[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 2007 (M.P.C. 59923).[7] The lunar crater Rayleigh as well as the crater Rayleigh on Mars are also named in his honor.[8][9]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 22740 Rayleigh (1998 SX146)" (2018-01-23 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."22740 Rayleigh (1998 SX146)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Asteroid 22740 Rayleigh – Proper Elements". AstDyS-2, Asteroids – Dynamic Site. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roig, F.; Nesvorný, D.; Ferraz-Mello, S. (September 2002). "Asteroids in the 2 : 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution [ Erratum: 2002MNRAS.336.1391R ]". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 335 (2): 417–431. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.335..417R. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05635.x.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nugent, C. R.; Mainzer, A.; Masiero, J.; Bauer, J.; Cutri, R. M.; Grav, T.; et al. (December 2015). "NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos". The Astrophysical Journal. 814 (2): 13. arXiv:1509.02522. Bibcode:2015ApJ...814..117N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/117. S2CID 9341381.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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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 (20001)-(25000) – Minor Planet Center
- Template:AstDys
- 22740 Rayleigh at the JPL Small-Body DatabaseTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
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