3103 Eger Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. FFC2E0
3103 Eger
Discoverer:M. Lovas
Discovered:20 January 1982
Discovery Site:Piszkéstető
Mpc Name:(3103) Eger
Alt Names:1982 BB
Named After:Eger
Orbit Ref:[1]
Epoch:13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty:0
Observation Arc:12495 days (34.21 yr)
Semimajor:1.4044AU
Perihelion:0.90673AU
Aphelion:1.9021abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.35437
Period:1.66 yr (607.90 d)
Inclination:20.931°
Asc Node:129.792°
Arg Peri:254.007°
Mean Motion: / day
Mean Anomaly:208.62°
P Orbit Ref:[2]
P Eccentricity:0.325
P Inclination:22.364°
P Mean Motion:99.460
Moid:0.0778981AU
Mean Diameter:1.5 km
Spectral Type:E
Albedo:0.64
Abs Magnitude:15.38

3103 Eger is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid that was discovered in 1982, by Miklós Lovas. It was named after the city of Eger, Hungary. It has an albedo of 0.64, making it a highly reflective asteroid.

Description

It has made and will continue to make many close approaches to Earth. Its closest approach occurred on 6 August 1996, when the asteroid passed 0.11509AU from Earth. The observed YORP value is .

3103 Eger is the only asteroid besides 4 Vesta identified as the parent body for specific meteorites. 4 Vesta is the parent body for Howardite, Eucrite, and Diogenite meteorites, while 3103 Eger is the parent body for Aubrite meteorites. In this characteristic 3103 Eger is related spectroscopically to the 434 Hungaria type asteroids, which are a Hirayama-family of orbital types, and E-type asteroids which form a spectroscopical type.

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Notes and References

  1. 3103 Eger. 3103. 14 April 2016.
  2. Web site: (162058) 1997AE12 . University of Pisa . NEODyS . 25 November 2015.