31641 Cevasco Explained

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31641 Cevasco
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
Discovery Ref: 
Discovered:6 April 1999
Mpc Name:(31641) Cevasco
Named After:Hannah Olivia Cevasco
Orbit Ref: 
Epoch:4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty:0
Observation Arc:23.42 yr (8,554 days)
Perihelion:2.1234 AU
Semimajor:2.4374 AU
Eccentricity:0.1289
Period:3.81 yr (1,390 days)
Inclination:1.2136°
Asc Node:278.36°
Arg Peri:215.87°
Dimensions:
3.26 km
Rotation: h
h
h
Albedo:0.20

Spectral Type:S 
Abs Magnitude:14.814.940

31641 Cevasco (provisional designation ) is a stony Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3.3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 April 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in Socorro, New Mexico, United States. The asteroid was named for Hannah Cevasco, a 2015 Broadcom MASTERS awardee.

Orbit and classification

Cevasco orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.1–2.8 AU once every 3 years and 10 months (1,390 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic.

The asteroid's observation arc begins 6 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its first identification as at ESO's La Silla Observatory in 1993.

Physical characteristics

Lightcurves

Three rotational lightcurves of Cevasco were obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory between 2010 and 2014. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of, and hours with a brightness variation of 0.71, 0.48 and 0.54 magnitude, respectively .

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Cevasco measures 2.7 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.311, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a stony asteroid of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 3.3 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 14.8.

Naming

This minor planet was named in honor of Hannah Olivia Cevasco (born 2000) finalist in the 2015 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for her medicine and health sciences project. At the time she attended the St. Charles School in California.

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