20 Massalia

20 Massalia
20 Massalia
Discovery
Discovered by Annibale de Gasparis
Discovery date September 19, 1852
Designations
Named after Marseille
Alternate name(s) none
Minor planet
category
Main belt (Massalia family)
Epoch October 22, 2004 (JD 2453300.5)
Aphelion 411.911 Gm (2.753 AU)
Perihelion 308.699 Gm (2.064 AU)
Semi-major axis 360.305 Gm (2.408 AU)
Eccentricity 0.143
Orbital period 1365.261 d (3.74 a)
Average orbital speed 19.09 km/s
Mean anomaly 161.641°
Inclination 0.707°
Longitude of ascending node 206.530°
Argument of perihelion 255.578°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 160×145×132 km[1]
145 km (mean)
160×145×130 km [2][3]
Mass 5.67×1018 kg[1]
5.2×1018 kg[4]
Mean density 3.54±0.85 g/cm³[1]
Equatorial surface gravity 0.054 m/s²
Escape velocity 0.093 km/s
Rotation period 0.3374 d (8.098 h) [5]
Albedo 0.210 (geometric)[2]
Temperature ~174 K
max: 265 K (-8°C)
Spectral type S [6]
Apparent magnitude 8.3[7] to 12.0
Absolute magnitude (H) 6.50
Angular diameter 0.186" to 0.058"

20 Massalia (play /məˈsliə/ mə-say-lee-ə; Greek: Μασσαλία) is a large and fairly bright main-belt asteroid. It is also the largest member of the Massalia family of asteroids. Its name is the Greek name for Marseille, the city from which one of the two independent co-discovers, Jean Chacornac, first sighted it.

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Characteristics

Massalia is an S-type asteroid. It orbits at very low inclination in the intermediate main belt, and is by far the largest asteroid in the Massalia family. The remaining family members are fragments ejected by a cratering event on Massalia.[8]

Massalia has an above-average density for S-type asteroids, similar to the density of silicate rocks. As such, it appears to be a solid un-fractured body, a rarity among asteroids of its size. Apart from the few largest bodies over 400 km in diameter, such as 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta, most asteroids appear to have been significantly fractured, or are even rubble piles. In 1998, Bange estimated Massalia to have a mass of 5.2×1018 kg assuming that 4 Vesta has 1.35×10−10 solar mass.[4] The mass of Massalia is dependent on the mass of 4 Vesta and perturbation of 44 Nysa.[4]

Lightcurve analysis indicates that Massalia's pole points towards either ecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (45°, 10°) or (β, λ) = (45°, 190°) with a 10° uncertainty.[3] This gives an axial tilt of 45°in both cases. The shape reconstruction from lightcurves has been described as quite spherical with large planar, nonconvex parts of the surface.

Discovery

Massalia was discovered by A. de Gasparis on September 19, 1852 in Naples, and also found independently the next night by J. Chacornac in Marseilles. It was Chacornac's discovery that was announced first. In the nineteenth century the variant spelling Massilia was often used.

References

  1. ^ a b c Jim Baer (2008). "Recent Asteroid Mass Determinations". Personal Website. http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/astmass.txt. Retrieved 2008-12-11. 
  2. ^ a b Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey
  3. ^ a b M. Kaasalainen et al. (2002). "Models of Twenty Asteroids from Photometric Data" (PDF). Icarus 159 (2): 369. Bibcode 2002Icar..159..369K. doi:10.1006/icar.2002.6907. http://www.rni.helsinki.fi/~mjk/IcarPIII.pdf. 
  4. ^ a b c J. Bange (1998). "An estimation of the mass of asteroid 20-Massalia derived from the HIPPARCOS minor planets data". Astronomy & Astrophysics 340: L1. Bibcode 1998A&A...340L...1B. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/A%2BA../0340//L000001.000.html. 
  5. ^ PDS lightcurve data
  6. ^ PDS spectral class data
  7. ^ Donald H. Menzel and Jay M. Pasachoff (1983). A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 391. ISBN 0-395-34835-8. 
  8. ^ D. Vokrouhlický et al. (2006). "Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families". Icarus 182: 118. Bibcode 2006Icar..182..118V. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.12.010. 

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