(38063) 1999 FH is a rare-type asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, classified as Mars-crosser and exceptionally slow rotator, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 March 1999, by Croatian astronomers Korado Korlević and Mario Jurić at Višnjan Observatory in Croatia.[2]
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Discovered by | K. Korlević M. Jurić |
Discovery site | Višnjan Obs. |
Discovery date | 16 March 1999 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | (38063) 1999 FH |
Alternative designations | 1999 FH · 2000 SY275 |
Minor planet category | Mars-crosser[1][2][3] |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 25.07 yr (9,158 days) |
Aphelion | 3.0288 AU |
Perihelion | 1.6559 AU |
Semi-major axis | 2.3424 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.2931 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 3.59 yr (1,309 days) |
Mean anomaly | 324.91° |
Mean motion | 0° 16m 29.64s / day |
Inclination | 11.880° |
Longitude of ascending node | 193.25° |
Argument of perihelion | 108.31° |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 3.395±0.703 km[4] 3.92 km (calculated)[3] 4.17±0.42 km[5] |
Synodic rotation period | 990±50 h[6][lower-alpha 1] |
Geometric albedo | 0.176±0.035[5] 0.20 (assumed)[3] 0.287±0.172[4] |
Spectral type | L[7] · S[3] |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.00[7] · 14.4[1][3][4][5] · 14.50±0.13[8] |
1999 FH orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.7–3.0 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,309 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.29 and an inclination of 12° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] A first precovery was taken at Steward Observatory in 1992, extending the body's observation arc by 7 years prior to its official discovery observation.[2]
SDSS photometry characterized 1999 FH as a rare and reddish L-type, which belong to the larger complex of stony asteroids.[7]
In September 2014, American astronomer Robert Stephens obtained a rotational lightcurve from photometric observations taken at the Center for Solar System Studies (CS3, U81) in California.[lower-alpha 1] It gave an exceptionally long rotation period of 990±50 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.55 magnitude (U=2), which makes it one of the slowest rotators known to exist. It is also a suspected tumbling asteroid, which show a non-principal axis rotation.[6]
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, 1999 FH measures 3.395 and 4.17 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.287 and 0.176, respectively.[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 3.92 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 14.4.[3]
This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002.[9] As of 2018, it has not been named.[2]
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