1323 Tugela

Tugela
Discovery
Discovered by C. Jackson
Discovery site Johannesburg (UO)
Discovery date 19 May 1934
Designations
MPC designation 1323
Named after
Tugela River
1934 LD
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 107.01 yr (39085 days)
Aphelion 3.7103183 AU (555.05572 Gm)
Perihelion 2.7506887 AU (411.49717 Gm)
3.230504 AU (483.2765 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.1485263
5.81 yr (2120.8 d)
166.7185°
 10m 11.085s / day
Inclination 18.78454°
45.24497°
136.00633°
Earth MOID 1.78003 AU (266.289 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.35793 AU (203.143 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.086
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
29.22±1.7 km
19.50 h (0.813 d)
0.0567±0.007
9.9

    1323 Tugela (1934 LD) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on May 19, 1934, by C. Jackson at Johannesburg (UO).

    Observations performed at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007 produced a light curve with a period of 19.50 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness range of 0.25 ± 0.02 in magnitude.[2]

    References

    1. "1323 Tugela (1934 LD)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
    2. Warner, Brian D. (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory", The Minor Planet Bulletin, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34...72W.

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