Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

(5319) Petrovskaya

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 30 October 2022

--Orbital and physical data--

(See this page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, see this link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)

dynamical type, primary: main belt asteroid


orbital data, primary (osculating elements) [JPL] :
semimajor axis a: 2.2569793721 AU
orbital period P: 3.390779798 yr
(= 1238.4823212 d)
eccentricity e: 0.153385406
perihelion distance q: 1.910791676 AU
aphelion distance Q: 2.6031670685 AU
inclination i: 6.2333154°
argument of perihelion ω: 81.757166°
ascending node Ω: 200.445347°
mean anomaly M: 26.237527°
perihelion passage TP: 2022 May 10.736908
Epoch: 2022 Aug 09
data arc: 1951-2022 (2944 obs.)
Earth MOID: 0.906543 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 3.599


orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: ?
orbital period Ps: 1.1867 ± 0.0004 d [B22k]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: ?

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 13.77 [MPC]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 4.91 ± 0.22 km [M**]
geometric albedo: 0.351 ± 0.046 [M**]
color index U-B: ?
color index B-V: ?
taxonomic type: ?
mass m: ?
density ρ: (1.6 g/cm3) [*A]
Hill radius rH: 710 km [*E]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 4.75 km [*D]
rotation period RPp: 3.3604 ± 0.0002 h [B22k]
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: ?
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: >1.24 km [*D]
diameter ratio ds/dp: >0.26 [B22k]
component mag. difference ΔM: <2.9 [*D]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- (5319) Petrovskaya --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 1985 Sep 15 from Nauchnyj, Crimea, Ukraine, USSR by N. S. Chernykh. Alternate designation(s): 1985 RK6, 1964 JB, 1987 DV4, 1988 NT. Linked to prediscovery observations from 1951 Nov 29. Permanent number assigned 1992 Sep 12.

Named 1997 Aug 18 [MPC030476].

Companion discovered 2022 Jul 02 by V. Benishek, P. Pravec, R. Durkee using lightcurve observations. Announced 2022 Oct 18 [B22k].

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