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2456 Palamedes

Trojan asteroid

Field	Value
minorplanet	yes
name	2456 Palamedes
background	#C2FFFF
discovery_ref
discoverer	Purple Mountain Obs.
discovery_site	Purple Mountain Obs.
discovered	30 January 1966
mpc_name	(2456) Palamedes
alt_names	1973 TJ
1979 EF
adjective	Palamedian
pronounced
named_after	Palamedes
(Greek mythology)
mp_category	Jupiter trojan
Greek
orbit_ref
epoch	27 April 2019 (JD 2458600.5)
uncertainty	0
observation_arc	65.59 yr (23,955 d)
aphelion	5.5103 AU
perihelion	4.7498 AU
semimajor	5.1301 AU
eccentricity	0.0741
period	11.62 yr (4,244 d)
mean_anomaly
mean_motion	/ day
inclination	13.912°
asc_node	327.36°
arg_peri	94.744°
jupiter_moid	0.1197 AU
tisserand	2.9370
mean_diameter

rotation
albedo

spectral_type	C (assumed)
V–I
abs_magnitude	9.3
9.4
9.60

1979 EF (Greek mythology) Greek

V–I
9.4 9.60

2456 Palamedes is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 90 km in diameter. It was discovered on 30 January 1966, by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanking, China. The assumed C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 7.24 hours and belongs to the 50 largest Jupiter trojans. It was named after Palamedes from Greek mythology.

Orbit and classification

Palamedes is a dark Jovian asteroid orbiting in the leading Greek camp at Jupiter's Lagrangian point, 60° ahead of the Gas Giant's orbit in a 1:1 resonance (see Trojans in astronomy). It is also a non-family asteroid in the Jovian background population.

It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.7–5.5 AU once every 11 years and 7 months (4,244 days; semi-major axis of 5.13 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.07 and an inclination of 14° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in February 1953, nearly 13 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nanking.

Naming

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Palamedes, the most intelligent of all the Greek commanders of the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 (M.P.C. 7618).

Physical characteristics

Palamedes is an assumed carbonaceous C-type asteroid. It has an average V–I color index of , typically associated with D-type asteroid (also see table below).

Rotation period

In August 1995, a rotational lightcurve of Palamedes was obtained from photometric observations by Stefano Mottola and Hans-Josef Schober using the now decommissioned Bochum 0.61-metre Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of hours and a brightness variation of 0.05 magnitude ().

A more refined period of hours with an amplitude of 0.27 magnitude was obtained by Robert Stephens at the Goat Mountain Astronomical Research Station in October 2009 ().

Diameter and albedo

According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Palamedes measures between 65.92 and 99.60 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.026 and 0.071. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0399 and a diameter of 91.83 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.3.

References

Noah Webster (1884) ''A Practical Dictionary of the English Language''

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