1088 Mitaka

1088 Mitaka
Discovery [1]
Discovered by O. Oikawa
Discovery site Tokyo Astronomical Obs.
Discovery date 17 November 1927
Designations
MPC designation (1088) Mitaka
Named after
 Mitaka [2] (Japanese village)
1927 WA · 1942 FR
1953 VW3 · 1971 BE
A917 RA
main-belt · (inner) [3]
background [4]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 88.22 yr (32,224 days)
Aphelion 2.6328 AU
Perihelion 1.7722 AU
2.2025 AU
Eccentricity 0.1954
3.27 yr (1,194 days)
200.92°
0° 18m 5.4s / day
Inclination 7.6514°
54.495°
319.50°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 11.33±2.51 km[5]
13.35±0.75 km[6]
15.137±0.131 km[7]
15.957±0.030 km[8]
16.016 km[9]
16.02 km (taken)[3]
3.027±0.003 h[10]
3.0353±0.0005 h[11]
3.035377 h[12]
3.035378±0.000005 h[13]
3.0354±0.0002 h[14]
3.0361±0.0007 h[14]
3.049±0.005 h[15]
0.1549[9]
0.1588±0.0204[8]
0.173±0.025[7]
0.276±0.034[6]
0.37±0.16[5]
Tholen = S [1]
SMASS = S [1][3]
B–V = 0.947 [1]
U–B = 0.594 [1]
11.39[1][6] · 11.41±0.20[16] · 11.55[5] · 11.62[3][8] · 11.62±0.08[9][15]

    1088 Mitaka, provisional designation 1927 WA, is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 17 November 1927, by Japanese astronomer Okuro Oikawa at the old Tokyo Astronomical Observatory in Japan.[17] The asteroid was named after the Japanese village of Mitaka.[2]

    Orbit and classification

    Mitaka is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population.[4] It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.8–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,194 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic.[1]

    The asteroid was first identified as A917 RA at Simeiz Observatory in September 1917. The body's observation arc begins at Tokyo in December 1927, one month after its official discovery observation.[17]

    Physical characteristics

    Mitaka is a common stony S-type asteroid in the Tholen and SMASS classification.[1][3]

    Rotation period

    Several rotational lightcurves of Mitaka have been obtained from photometric observations since 1989.[10][11][14][15] Analysis of the best rated lightcurve by French amateur astronomer Pierre Antonini gave a rotation period of 3.0361 hours with a consolidated brightness variation of 0.23 to 0.62 magnitude (U=3).[3][14]

    Modeled lightcurves

    In 2009 and 2011, modelling of Mitaka's lightcurve using photometric data from the US Naval Observatory, the Uppsala Asteroid Photometric Catalogue (UAPC), the Palmer Divide Observatory's archive, the Palomar Transient Factory survey, and from individual observers, gave a concurring rotation period of 3.035377 and 3.035378 hours.[12][13] The modeled lightcurves also gave a spin axis of (115.0°, 46.0°) and (278.0°, −72.0°),[12] as well as (280.0°, −71.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β).[13]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Mitaka measures between 11.33 and 16.016 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.1549 and 0.37.[5][6][7][8][9]

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts Petr Pravec's revised WISE results with an albedo of 0.1549 and takes a diameter of 16.02 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.62.[3]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after the Japanese village of Mitaka, where the discovering Tokyo Astronomical Observatory was located. Nowadays the city of Mitaka hosts the headquarters of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan with the Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle, public relation and data centers, and several telescopes. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (H 103).[2]

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