Astronomy:724 Hapag

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Short description: Minor planet orbiting the Sun
724 Hapag
Discovery [1]
Discovered byJ. Palisa
Discovery siteVienna Obs.
Discovery date21 October 1911
Designations
(724) Hapag
1911 NC, 1988 VG2
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc104.39 yr (38129 d)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}3.0675 astronomical unit|AU (458.89 Gm)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}1.8441 AU (275.87 Gm)
2.4558 AU (367.38 Gm)
Eccentricity0.24908
Orbital period3.85 yr (1405.7 d)
Mean anomaly73.788°
Mean motion0° 15m 21.96s / day
Inclination11.707°
Longitude of ascending node204.27°
205.50°
Physical characteristics
Rotation period3.1305 h (0.13044 d)[1][2]
Absolute magnitude (H)13.9[1]


724 Hapag is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt[3] that was found by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911 and named after the German shipping company Hamburg America Line.[3] It was assigned a provisional name of 1911 NC, then became a lost asteroid until it was rediscovered in 1988 as 1988 VG2 by Tsutomu Hioki and N. Kawasato at Okutama, Japan.[4]

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 3.1305 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.11 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 724 Hapag (1911 NC)". https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=724. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pilcher, Frederick (April 2012), "Rotation Period Determinations for 31 Euphrosyne, 65 Cybele, 154 Bertha 177 Irma, 200 Dynamene, 724 Hapag, 880 Herba, and 1470 Carla", The Minor Planet Bulletin 39 (2): pp. 57–60, Bibcode2012MPBu...39...57P. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Schmadel, Lutz D. (1997). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 70. 
  4. Nakano, S. et al. (1988), Green, D. W. E., ed., "(724) Hapag = 1988 VG2", IAU Circular (4676): pp. 1, Bibcode1988IAUC.4676....1N. 

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