1530 Rantaseppä
{{Short description|Stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt}}
{{Infobox planet
| minorplanet = yes
| name = 1530 Rantaseppä
| background = #D6D6D6
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| discovered = 16 September 1938
| discoverer = Y. Väisälä
| discovery_site = Turku Obs.
| mpc_name = (1530) Rantaseppä
| alt_names = 1938 SG
| pronounced =
| named_after = Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius
{{small|(Finnish astronomer)}}
| mp_category = main-belt{{·}}Flora
| epoch = 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
| uncertainty = 0
| observation_arc = 78.63 yr (28,720 days)
| aphelion = 2.6962 AU
| perihelion = 1.8005 AU
| semimajor = 2.2483 AU
| eccentricity = 0.1992
| period = 3.37 yr (1,231 days)
| mean_anomaly = 139.43°
| mean_motion = {{Deg2DMS|0.2924|sup=ms}} / day
| inclination = 4.4184°
| asc_node = 285.88°
| arg_peri = 84.678°
| dimensions = {{val|5.044|0.058}} km
{{val|5.195|0.054}} km
5.93 km {{small|(calculated)}}
| rotation = {{val|3.5258|0.0005}} h{{efn|name=LCDB-Pravec-2016}}{{efn|name=Pravec-Lightcurve-Plot}}
| albedo = 0.24 {{small|(assumed)}}
{{val|0.3791|0.0941}}
{{val|0.400|0.028}}
| spectral_type = S
| abs_magnitude = 13.1{{·}}13.3
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1530 Rantaseppä, provisional designation {{mp|1938 SG}}, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in 1938, it was later named after Finnish astronomer Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius.
Discovery
Rantaseppä was discovered on 16 September 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland. Two night later, the body was independently discovered by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at Uccle Observatory. The body's observation arc begins at Uccle, one day after its official discovery observation at Turku.
Classification and orbit
Rantaseppä is a member of the Flora family of stony asteroids, one of the largest families of the main belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,231 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic.
Physical characteristics
= Lightcurve =
In December 2016, a rotational lightcurve of Rantaseppä was obtained from photometric observations by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory and its photometric program of near-Earth objects.{{efn|name=Pravec-Lightcurve-Plot}} Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.5258 hours with a relatively high brightness variation of 0.41 magnitude, which is indicative of a non-spheroidal shape ({{small|U=3}}).{{efn|name=LCDB-Pravec-2016}}
= Diameter and albedo =
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Rantaseppä measures 5.044 and 5.195 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.3791 and 0.400, respectively. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo for a stony S-type asteroid of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the family's largest member and namesake – and calculates a diameter of 5.93 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.3.
Naming
This minor planet was named in memory of Finnish astronomer Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius (1925–1975), an observer of comets and asteroids at the Turku Astronomical-Optical Institute of the University of Turku. The official {{MoMP|1530|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ({{small|M.P.C. 3929}}).
Notes
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{{efn|name=LCDB-Pravec-2016|1=Pravec (2016) web: rotation period {{val|3.5258|0.0005}} hours with a brightness amplitude of {{val|0.41}} magnitude and an Quality Code of 3. Summary figures at [http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/generateOneAsteroidInfo.php?AstInfo=1530%7CRantaseppä Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)] and [http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2016)]}}
{{efn|name=Pravec-Lightcurve-Plot|1=[http://www.asu.cas.cz/~asteroid/01530.png Lightcurve plot] obtained by Petr Pravec from prepublished periods of asteroids of the Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program, see [http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/newres.txt summary file]}}
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References
{{reflist|30em|refs=
|type = 2017-05-04 last obs.
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1530 Rantaseppa (1938 SG)
|url = https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001530
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 30 June 2017}}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1530) Rantaseppä
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 121
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1531 |chapter = (1530) Rantaseppä }}
|title = 1530 Rantaseppa (1938 SG)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=1530
|accessdate = 3 April 2017}}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition (2006–2008)
|year = 2009
|url = https://archive.org/details/dictionaryminorp2008schm
|url-access = limited
|chapter = Appendix – Publication Dates of the MPCs
|last = Schmadel |first=Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryminorp2008schm/page/n230 221]
|isbn = 978-3-642-01964-7
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-01965-4}}
|display-authors = 6
|first1 = Joseph R. |last1 = Masiero
|first2 = T. |last2 = Grav
|first3 = A. K. |last3 = Mainzer
|first4 = C. R. |last4 = Nugent
|first5 = J. M. |last5 = Bauer
|first6 = R. |last6 = Stevenson
|first7 = S. |last7 = Sonnett
|date = August 2014
|title = Main-belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-infrared Albedos
|url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2014ApJ...791..121M
|journal = The Astrophysical Journal
|volume = 791
|issue = 2
|page = 11
|bibcode = 2014ApJ...791..121M
|doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/121
|arxiv = 1406.6645
|access-date= 3 April 2017}}
|title = LCDB Data for (1530) Rantaseppä
|publisher = Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
|url = http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/generateOneAsteroidInfo.php?AstInfo=1530%7CRantaseppä
|accessdate = 3 April 2017}}
|display-authors = 6
|first1 = A. |last1 = Mainzer
|first2 = T. |last2 = Grav
|first3 = J. |last3 = Masiero
|first4 = E. |last4 = Hand
|first5 = J. |last5 = Bauer
|first6 = D. |last6 = Tholen
|first7 = R. S. |last7 = McMillan
|first8 = T. |last8 = Spahr
|first9 = R. M. |last9 = Cutri
|first10 = E. |last10 = Wright
|first11 = J. |last11 = Watkins
|first12 = W. |last12 = Mo
|first13 = C. |last13 = Maleszewski
|date = November 2011
|title = NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results
|journal = The Astrophysical Journal
|volume = 741
|issue = 2
|page = 25
|bibcode = 2011ApJ...741...90M
|doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90
|arxiv = 1109.6407}}
}}
External links
- [http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/lcdbsummaryquery.php Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)], query form ([http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216050541/http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html |date=2017-12-16 }})
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg Dictionary of Minor Planet Names], Google books
- [http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR] – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- [https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000)] – Minor Planet Center
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