Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(31346)
1998 PB1
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
9 October 2021
--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:
NEA, Amor
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
2.0294639991 AU
|
orbital period P: |
2.8911593403 yr (= 1056.0158932 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.429985049
|
perihelion distance q: |
1.15682482 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.9021031761 AU
|
inclination i: |
5.9637866°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
350.5342°
|
ascending node Ω: |
299.732528°
|
mean anomaly M: |
337.893737°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2021 Sep 03.846013
|
Epoch: |
2021 Jul 01
|
data arc: |
1998-2021
(615 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.141241 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.685
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
3.6
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 7.9 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.043 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
2.308
± 0.004
d [P21d]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
17.09
[MPC]
17.29 ± 0.08 [P21d]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
0.981
± 0.453/0.217
km [N18a]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.201
± 0.138/0.109
[N18a]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
color index V-R: | 0.43 ± 0.02 [P21d] |
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
80 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
0.92
± 0.78/0.38
km [*D]
|
rotation period RPp: |
2.7358
± 0.0002
h [P21d]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.13
[P21d]
|
amplitude in mag., mutual events ΔM: | 0.15 [P21d] |
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
>0.35
± 0.11
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
>0.38
[P21d]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
<2.10
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(31346) 1998 PB1
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1998 Aug 15
from
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
by
Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1998 Jul 14.
Permanent number assigned 2001 Nov 30.
Companion discovered
2021 Apr 06
by P. Pravec, P. Kusnirak, K. Hornoch, P. Fatka, H. Kucakova, and C. Snodgrass
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2021 Jun 16 [P21d].
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2021, 2021
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
9 October 2021.
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