1887 Virton information

1887 Virton
Discovery
Discovered by	S. Arend
Discovery site	Uccle Obs.
Discovery date	5 October 1950
Designations
MPC designation	(1887) Virton
Named after	Virton (Belgian town)
Alternative designations	1950 TD · 1934 RG; 1944 OE · 1950 RG; 1950 TQ1 · 1952 BF1; 1960 QC · 1970 OA
Minor planet category	main-belt · Eos
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	66.44 yr (24,266 days)
Aphelion	3.3481 AU
Perihelion	2.6606 AU
Semi-major axis	3.0043 AU
Eccentricity	0.1144
Orbital period (sidereal)	5.21 yr (1,902 days)
Mean anomaly	295.94°
Mean motion	0° 11m 21.48s / day
Inclination	9.6221°
Longitude of ascending node	348.58°
Argument of perihelion	32.733°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	20.848±0.260; 21.40 km (calculated); 22.174±0.605 km; 23.43±0.54 km
Geometric albedo	0.105±0.005; 0.1085±0.0158; 0.124±0.015; 0.14 (assumed)
Spectral type	S
Absolute magnitude (H)	11.1 · 11.3

1887 Virton, provisional designation 1950 TD, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle on 5 October 1950, and named after the Belgian town of Virton.^[2]^[7]

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