922 Schlutia Explained

Minorplanet:yes
922 Schlutia
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
Discovery Ref: 
Discovered:18 September 1919
Mpc Name:(922) Schlutia
Alt Names:A919 SJA906 UC
1919 FW1906 UC
Named After:Edgar Schlubach
Henry Frederic Tiarks
Mp Category:main-belt 
background 
Orbit Ref: 
Epoch:31 May 2020 (JD 2459000.5)
Uncertainty:0
Observation Arc:112.56 yr (41,114 d)
Perihelion:2.1667 AU
Semimajor:2.6892 AU
Eccentricity:0.1943
Period:4.41 yr (1,611 d)
Mean Motion: / day
Inclination:7.2999°
Asc Node:205.17°
Arg Peri:126.54°
Mean Diameter:
    Albedo:
      Spectral Type:n.a.
      Abs Magnitude:12.1

      922 Schlutia (prov. designation: or) is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory on 18 September 1919. The asteroid with an unknown spectral type has a rotation period of 7.9 hours and measures approximately 18km (11miles) in diameter. It was named after Edgar Schlubach and Henry Frederic Tiarks, who sponsored an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 21 September 1922.

      Orbit and classification

      Schlutia is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 5 months (1,611 days; semi-major axis of 2.69 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.19 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as at Heidelberg Observatory on 17 October 1906, almost 13 years prior to its official discovery observation.

      Naming

      This minor planet was named after Edgar Schlubach, a German businessman from Hamburg, as well as Henry Frederic Tiarks, FRAS, British banker and amateur astronomer from London, who together financed the Dutch-German expedition to the Christmas Island to observe the solar eclipse of 21 September 1922. The asteroid was named by Schlubach and Tiarks and published in the journal Astronomische Nachrichten in 1923 (AN 218, 253). The was also mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 .

      Physical characteristics

      Schlutias spectral type has not been determined.

      Rotation period

      In August 2007, a rotational lightcurve of Schlutia was obtained from photometric observations by amateur astronomers Pierre Antonini and Silvano Casulli. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of hours with a low brightness amplitude of magnitude, indicative of a regular, spherical shape .

      Diameter and albedo

      According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Japanese Akari satellite Schlutia measures and kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of and, respectively. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an intermediate albedo of 0.1 and calculates a diameter of 16.73 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.0. Further published mean-diameters by the WISE team include,, and with corresponding albedos of,, and .

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