572 Rebekka
Rebekka (minor planet designation: 572 Rebekka) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, which was discovered on September 19, 1905, by a German astronomer Paul Götz in Heidelberg. It was named after a young lady from Heidelberg, and may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1905 RB.
![]() A three-dimensional model of 572 Rebekka based on its light curve | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Paul Götz |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | 19 September 1905 |
Designations | |
(572) Rebekka | |
Pronunciation | /rɪˈbɛkə/[1] German: [ʁeːˈbɛkaː][2] |
1905 RB | |
Orbital characteristics[3] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 109.81 yr (40108 d) |
Aphelion | 2.7789 AU (415.72 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.0213 AU (302.38 Gm) |
2.4001 AU (359.05 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.15782 |
3.72 yr (1358.1 d) | |
272.796° | |
0° 15m 54.252s / day | |
Inclination | 10.580° |
194.566° | |
192.111° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 14.815±0.45 km |
5.6497 h (0.23540 d) | |
0.0847±0.005 | |
10.94 | |
Observations performed at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado during 2007 produced a light curve with a period of 5.656 ± 0.002 hours with a brightness range of 0.40 ± 0.02 in magnitude. This agrees with the 5.65 hour period measured in 1998.[4]
References
- 'Rebecca' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- (German Names)
- "572 Rebekka (1905 RB)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- Warner, Brian D. (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory", The Minor Planet Bulletin, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34...72W.
External links
- Lightcurve plot of 572 Rebekka, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007)
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- 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
- 572 Rebekka at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 572 Rebekka at the JPL Small-Body Database
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