1822 Waterman, provisional designation 1950 OO, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6.5 kilometers in diameter.
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Indiana University (Indiana Asteroid Program) |
| Discovery site | Goethe Link Obs. |
| Discovery date | 25 July 1950 |
| Designations | |
| (1822) Waterman | |
Named after | Alan T. Waterman (American physicist)[2] |
| 1950 OO · 1943 EB 1953 MA · 1963 TT | |
| main-belt · (inner)[3] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 66.64 yr (24,342 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.5023 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.8378 AU |
| 2.1700 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1531 |
| 3.20 yr (1,168 days) | |
| 45.052° | |
| Inclination | 0.9567° |
| 221.25° | |
| 30.351° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 6.054±0.098[4] 6.515±0.060 km[5] 7.46 km (calculated)[3] |
| 7.581±0.002 h[6] | |
| 0.20 (assumed)[3] 0.2639±0.0659[5] 0.325±0.046[4] | |
| S[3] | |
| 13.0[5] · 13.1[1][3] · 14.04±0.51[7] | |
It was discovered on 25 July 1950, by Indiana University's Indiana Asteroid Program at its Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.[8] The asteroid was named after American physicist Alan T. Waterman.[2]
Orbit and classification
editWaterman is a S-type asteroid. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 2 months (1,168 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation, as its first identification, 1943 EB, made at the German Sonneberg Observatory in 1943, remained unused.[8]
Physical characteristics
editRotation period
editIn January 2013, a rotational lightcurve of Waterman was obtained from photometric observation taken at the U.S Etscorn Observatory in New Mexico. It gave a well-defined rotation period of 7.581 hours with a brightness variation of 0.51 magnitude (U=3).[6]
Diameter and albedo
editAccording to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Waterman measures between 6.06 and 6.52 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.264 and 0.325.[4][5] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 7.46 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.1.[3]
Naming
editThis minor planet was named in honor of American physicist Alan Tower Waterman (1892–1967), who was the first director of the U.S. National Science Foundation. He went to Washington to serve with OSRD (1941–45), ONR (1946–51), and NSF (1951–63), after being an academic physicist for 25 years.[2]
Waterman was awarded the Karl Taylor Compton Gold Medal for distinguished statesmanship in science, the Public Welfare Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[2][9] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 (M.P.C. 3825).[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1822 Waterman (1950 OO)" (2017-03-17 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(1822) Waterman". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1822) Waterman. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 146. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1823. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ^ a b c d e f "LCDB Data for (1822) Waterman". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ a b c Masiero, Joseph R.; Grav, T.; Mainzer, A. K.; Nugent, C. R.; Bauer, J. M.; Stevenson, R.; et al. (August 2014). "Main-belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-infrared Albedos". The Astrophysical Journal. 791 (2): 11. arXiv:1406.6645. Bibcode:2014ApJ...791..121M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/121. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ a b c d Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Hand, E.; Bauer, J.; Tholen, D.; et al. (November 2011). "NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results". The Astrophysical Journal. 741 (2): 25. arXiv:1109.6407. Bibcode:2011ApJ...741...90M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90.
- ^ a b Klinglesmith, Daniel A. III; Hanowell, Jesse; Risley, Ethan; Janek, Turk; Vargas, Angelica; Warren, Curtis Alan (July 2013). "Etscorn Observed Asteroids: Results for Size Asteroids December 2012 - March 2013". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 40 (3): 154–156. Bibcode:2013MPBu...40..154K. ISSN 1052-8091. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ Veres, Peter; Jedicke, Robert; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Granvik, Mikael; Bolin, Bryce; et al. (November 2015). "Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results". Icarus. 261: 34–47. arXiv:1506.00762. Bibcode:2015Icar..261...34V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ a b "1822 Waterman (1950 OO)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ "Public Welfare Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. "Appendix – Publication Dates of the MPCs". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition (2006–2008). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 221. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01965-4. ISBN 978-3-642-01964-7.
External links
edit- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
- 1822 Waterman at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 1822 Waterman at the JPL Small-Body Database
