21509 Lucascavin

21509 Lucascavin
Discovery [1]
Discovered by LINEAR
Discovery site Lincoln Lab's ETS
Discovery date 22 May 1998
Designations
MPC designation (21509) Lucascavin
Named after
 Lucas James Cavin [2]
(2005 ISEF awardee)
1998 KL35 · 1982 VD3
main belt · (inner)
Flora [3] · Lucascavin [4][5]
Duponta
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 35.04 yr (12,797 days)
Aphelion 2.5365 AU
Perihelion 2.0257 AU
2.2811 AU
Eccentricity 0.1120
3.45 yr (1,258 days)
18.811°
0° 17m 9.96s / day
Inclination 5.9818°
70.169°
4.0650°
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
 2.54 km (calculated)[3]
5.7891±0.004 h[3]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
S (assumed)[3]
14.68±0.07 (R)[3] · 14.9[1] · 15.14[3]

    21509 Lucascavin (1998 KL35) is a main-belt asteroid and parent body of the Lucascavin family. It was discovered on May 22, 1998, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team at Socorro, New Mexico.[2]

    This asteroid is believed to result from the collisional destruction of a larger parent body approximately 300,000 to 800,000 years ago.[6] The asteroid was named for Lucas James Cavin who won second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering project.[7]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 21509 Lucascavin (1998 KL35)" (2017-11-27 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
    2. 1 2 "21509 Lucascavin (1998 KL35)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "LCDB Data for (21509) Lucascavin". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 1 February 2018.
    4. ↑ "Small Bodies Data Ferret". Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
    5. ↑ Nesvorný, D.; Broz, M.; Carruba, V. (December 2014). "Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families" (PDF). Asteroids IV: 297–321. arXiv:1502.01628. Bibcode:2015aste.book..297N. doi:10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816532131-ch016. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
    6. ↑ Nesvorný, D. & Vokrouhlický, D. (2006). "New Candidates for Recent Asteroid Breakups". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (5): 1950–1958. Bibcode:2006AJ....132.1950N. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.693.3963. doi:10.1086/507989.
    7. ↑ "2005 Award Honorees". Lincoln Laboratory. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2008.


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