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Phocaea asteroid
Brucia (
minor planet designation : 323 Brucia ) is a stony
Phocaea
asteroid and former
Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the
asteroid belt , approximately 33 kilometers (21 miles) in diameter. It was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of
astrophotography .
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Description
Brucia was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by
Max Wolf , a pioneer in that method of finding
astronomical objects . Discovered on December 22, 1891, when he was 28 years old, it was named in honour of
Catherine Wolfe Bruce , a noted
patroness of the science of
astronomy , who had donated $10,000 for the construction of the telescope used by Wolf.
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The asteroid is a member of the
Phocaea family (
701 ),
[3] a large
family of stony
S-type asteroids with nearly two thousand known members.
[16] : 23 It was an outer
Mars-crossing asteroid with
perihelion less than 1.666 AU
[1] until July 2017. For comparison, asteroid
4222 Nancita will become a Mars-crosser in June 2019.
(6454) 1991 UG1 was a Mars-crossing asteroid until January 2016.
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needs update ]
Brucia has a synodic
rotation period of 9.463 hours (as of 1998).
[4] According to the survey carried out by the
Infrared Astronomical Satellite , Brucia measures 35.82 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an
albedo of 0.1765.
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References
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"JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 323 Brucia" (2017-04-30 last obs.).
Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
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b Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(323) Brucia". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 42.
doi :
10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_324 .
ISBN
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"Asteroid 323 Brucia – Nesvorny HCM Asteroid Families V3.0" . Small Bodies Data Ferret . Retrieved 24 October 2019 .
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"LCDB Data for (323) Brucia" . Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
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b 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 .
S2CID
119293330 . Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
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c Alí-Lagoa, V.; Delbo', M. (July 2017). "Sizes and albedos of Mars-crossing asteroids from WISE/NEOWISE data". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 603 : 8.
arXiv :
1705.10263 .
Bibcode :
2017A&A...603A..55A .
doi :
10.1051/0004-6361/201629917 .
S2CID
119224590 .
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c 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 :
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S2CID
118700974 .
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d Tedesco, E. F.; Noah, P. V.; Noah, M.; Price, S. D. (October 2004).
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c Usui, Fumihiko; Kuroda, Daisuke; Müller, Thomas G.; Hasegawa, Sunao; Ishiguro, Masateru; Ootsubo, Takafumi; et al. (October 2011).
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Online catalog
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"Physical Studies of Asteroids. Part XXVI. Rotation and Photoelectric Photometry of Asteroids 323, 350, 582, 1021 and 1866" . Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement . 101 (3): 507.
Bibcode :
1993A&AS..101..499S . Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
^ Behrend, Raoul.
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^ Warner, Brian D. (July 2014).
"Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at CS3-Palmer Divide Station: 2014 January–March" . The Minor Planet Bulletin . 41 (3): 144–155.
Bibcode :
2014MPBu...41..144W .
ISSN
1052-8091 .
PMC
7296833 .
PMID
32549049 .
^ 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 .
S2CID
53493339 . Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
^ Campbell, W. W. (1892).
"Discovery of Asteroids by Photography" . Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 4 (26): 264.
Bibcode :
1892PASP....4..264C .
doi :
10.1086/120521 .
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"323 Brucia" . Minor Planet Center . Retrieved 1 November 2017 .
^ Nesvorný, D.; Broz, M.; Carruba, V. (December 2014). "Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families". Asteroids IV . pp. 297–321.
arXiv :
1502.01628 .
Bibcode :
2015aste.book..297N .
doi :
10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816532131-ch016 .
ISBN
9780816532131 .
S2CID
119280014 .
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Webcite archive of asteroid 6454 with Epoch 2016
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