1117 Reginita

1117 Reginita
Discovery [1]
Discovered by J. Comas Solà
Discovery site Fabra Obs.
Discovery date 24 May 1927
Designations
MPC designation (1117) Reginita
Named after
 Reginita (discoverer's niece)[2]
1927 KA · A904 TA
main-belt · (inner) [3]
background [4]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 112.47 yr (41,080 days)
Aphelion 2.6934 AU
Perihelion 1.8017 AU
2.2475 AU
Eccentricity 0.1984
3.37 yr (1,231 days)
245.71°
0° 17m 33s / day
Inclination 4.3446°
147.14°
151.05°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 9.82±2.35 km[5]
10.193±0.250 km[6][7]
10.29 km (taken)[3]
10.292 km[8]
11.22±0.35 km[9]
2.928±0.0134 h[10]
2.94±0.010 h[11]
2.9458±0.0002 h[12]
2.946±0.001 h[13]
2.9463±0.0006 h[14]
2.9464±0.0005 h[15]
0.293±0.041[9]
0.3516[8]
0.3585±0.0785[7]
0.36±0.13[5]
S (Tholen)[3]
11.436±0.001 (R)[10] · 11.470±0.070 (R)[11] · 11.69[3][7] · 11.69±0.1[8][14] · 11.70[1][9] · 11.96[5]

    1117 Reginita, provisional designation 1927 KA, is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 May 1927, by Catalan astronomer Josep Comas i Solà at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona, Spain, who named it after his niece.[2][16]

    Orbit and classification

    Reginita is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population.[4] It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.8–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,231 days; semi-major axis of 2.25 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic.[1]

    The asteroid was first observed as A904 TA at Heidelberg Observatory in October 1904. The body's observation arc also begins at Heidelberg in April 1930, almost three years after its official discovery observation at Barcelona.[16]

    Physical characteristics

    In the Tholen classification, Reginita is a common, stony S-type asteroid.[3]

    Rotation period

    Several rotational lightcurves of Reginita have been obtained from photometric observations since 1988.[10][11][12][13][14][15] The consolidated lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 2.946 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.10 and 0.33 magnitude (U=3).[3]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Reginita measures between 9.82 and 11.22 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.293 and 0.36.[5][6][7][8][9]

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts Petr Pravec's revised WISE data, that is, an albedo of 0.3516 and a diameter of 10.29 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.69.[3][8]

    Naming

    This minor planet was named after the niece of the discoverer. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (H 105).[2]

    References

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