Discovery[1] | |
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Discovered by | A. Boattini M. Tombelli |
Discovery site | Pistoia Mountains Obs. |
Discovery date | 24 January 1998 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | (16879) Campai |
Named after | Paolo Campai[2] (Italian amateur astronomer) |
Alternative designations | 1998 BH10 |
Minor planet category | main-belt[1][3] · (middle) Witt[4] |
Orbital characteristics[3] | |
Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 39.78 yr (14,529 d) |
Aphelion | 2.8229 AU |
Perihelion | 2.6938 AU |
Semi-major axis | 2.7584 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.0234 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 4.58 yr (1,673 d) |
Mean anomaly | 349.41° |
Mean motion | 0° 12m 54.36s / day |
Inclination | 7.1221° |
Longitude of ascending node | 47.289° |
Argument of perihelion | 230.77° |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean diameter | 10.61 km (calculated)[5] |
Synodic rotation period | 314.2468±4.9149 h[6] |
Geometric albedo | 0.057 (assumed)[5] |
Spectral type | S[7] · C (assumed)[5] |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.97±0.46[7] 13.150±0.005[6] 13.3[3] · 13.6[5] |
16879 Campai (provisional designation 1998 BH10) is a stony Witt asteroid and slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter. The S-type asteroid was discovered on 24 January 1998, by Italian astronomers Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese, Tuscany, central Italy.[1] It was named for Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Campai.[2]
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