Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(15094)
Polymele
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
19 February 2023
--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:
Jupiter trojan asteroid, L4
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
5.18030111 AU
|
orbital period P: |
11.79073038 yr (= 4306.56427 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.096759738
|
perihelion distance q: |
4.67905653 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
5.68154569 AU
|
inclination i: |
12.9813206°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
4.77153°
|
ascending node Ω: |
50.31861°
|
mean anomaly M: |
44.313672°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2021 Sep 12.88979
|
Epoch: |
2023 Feb 25
|
data arc: |
1991-2019
(831 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
3.68929 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
2.94
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
204
km
[B22p]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 22.3 [*D] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.030 [*D] |
orbital period Ps: |
11
d [*E]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
11.81
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
0.22 [JPL]
|
effective diameter dE: |
21.08
± 0.14
km [M**]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.091
± 0.017
[M**]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
6700 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
18.3
km [*D]
|
dimensions : | 26.2 x 12.8km [] |
rotation period RPp: |
5.8607
± 0.0005
h [JPL]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
5.5
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.3
[*D]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
2.6
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(15094) Polymele
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1999 Nov 17
from
Catalina Station, Arizona, USA
by
Catalina Sky Survey.
Alternate designation(s):
1999 WB2,
1997 WR57.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1991 May 04.
Permanent number assigned 2000 May 23.
Named 2016 Feb 22 for the wife of Menoetius [MPC098711].
Companion discovered
2022 Mar 27
by M. Buie, B. Keeney, H. Levison, C. Olkin, and the Lucy Occultations Team
using
stellar occultation
observations.
Announced
2022 Aug 16 [K22a].
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2023
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
19 February 2023.
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