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945 Barcelona

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945 Barcelona
Discovery
Discovered byJ. Comas Solà
Discovery siteBarcelona
Discovery date3 February 1921
Designations
(945) Barcelona
1921 JB
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc92.54 yr (33802 days)
Aphelion3.0656 AU (458.61 Gm)
Perihelion2.2037 AU (329.67 Gm)
2.6347 AU (394.15 Gm)
Eccentricity0.16357
4.28 yr (1562.0 d)
115.327°
0° 13m 49.692s / day
Inclination32.896°
318.298°
162.067°
Physical characteristics
12.735±0.6 km
7.36 h (0.307 d)
0.2416±0.024
10.13

945 Barcelona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the Asteroid belt. It was discovered 3 February 1921 from Barcelona by the Catalan astronomer Josep Comas i Solà (1868–1937) and named for the city of Barcelona (Spain), the birthplace of the discoverer. It has an estimated diameter of 25.5 km.

This object is the namesake of a Barcelona family of approximately 300 stony asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements; hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "945 Barcelona", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. ^ Novaković, Bojan; et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus, vol. 216, no. 1, pp. 69–81, arXiv:1108.3740, Bibcode:2011Icar..216...69N, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016.
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