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1046 Edwin

Background asteroid

Field	Value
minorplanet	yes
name	1046 Edwin
background	#D6D6D6
image	Orbit of 1046 Edwin.gif
caption	Orbital diagram of 1046 Edwin
discovery_ref
discoverer	G. van Biesbroeck
discovery_site	Yerkes Obs.
discovered	1 December 1924
mpc_name	(1046) Edwin
alt_names	1924 UA1949 RB
1949 YL
named_after	Edwin Van Biesbroeck
(discoverer's son)
mp_category	main-belt(outer)
background
orbit_ref
epoch	23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)
uncertainty	0
observation_arc	91.86 yr (33,553 d)
aphelion	3.1769 AU
perihelion	2.7895 AU
semimajor	2.9832 AU
eccentricity	0.0649
period	5.15 yr (1,882 d)
mean_anomaly	53.846°
mean_motion	/ day
inclination	7.8991°
asc_node	10.745°
arg_peri	47.898°
mean_diameter
(calculated)
rotation

albedo	0.057 (assumed)

spectral_type	SMASS XeM
abs_magnitude	10.2010.6

1949 YL (discoverer's son) background

(calculated)

1046 Edwin, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 km kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 1 December 1924, by Belgian–American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, United States, who named it after his son, Edwin Van Biesbroeck. The potentially metallic asteroid has a short rotation period of 5.29 hours.

Orbit and classification

Edwin is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU once every 5 years and 2 months (1,882 days; semi-major axis of 2.98 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.06 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first recorded observation at Heidelberg Observatory in March 1926, or 15 months after its official discovery observation at Yerkes Observatory.

Physical characteristics

In the SMASS classification, Edwin is an Xe-subtype that transitions from the X-type to the very bright E-type asteroid It has also been characterized as a metallic M-type asteroid by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

Rotation period

Since 2001, several rotational lightcurves of Edwin have been obtained from photometric observations by American William Koff at the Antelope Hills Observatory in Colorado, Richard Ditteon at the Oakley Observatory in Indiana, and French amateur astronomers Pierre Antonini, René Roy and Stéphane Charbonnel.

Analysis of the best-rated lightcurve by Pierre Antonini from November 2006, gave a rotation period of 5.2906 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.27 magnitude (). While not being a fast rotator, it has a relatively short spin-rate for an asteroid of its size.

Diameter and albedo

According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's WISE telescope, Edwin measures between 25.15 and 36.355 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.1113 and 0.235.

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and consequently calculates a larger diameter of 42.23 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.6.

Naming

This minor planet was named after Edwin Van Biesbroeck, son of discoverer George Van Biesbroeck. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (H 99).

Notes

References

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