Asteroid (1249) Rutherfordia
Orbital characteristics
| Epoch 1-Jul-2021 (2459396.5 JD) | |
| Apoapsis | 2.3940 AU |
| 3.5814×108 km | |
| Periapsis | 2.0568 AU |
| 3.077×108 km | |
| Semi-major axis | 2.2254 AU |
| 3.3292×108 km | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0757532 |
| Inclination | 4.8718 ° |
| Longitude of asc. node | 258.96 ° |
| Argument of periapsis | 223.61 ° |
| Orbital period | 1212.59 days |
| 3.320 years | |
| Avg. orbital speed | 19.94 km/s |
Physical characteristics
| Mean diameter | 13.063 km |
| Rotation period (sidereal) | 18.218 hours |
| Albedo | 0.251 |
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Links
Shape model data sources
- Hanuš et al., Asteroids' physical models from combined dense and sparse photometry and scaling of the YORP effect by the observed obliquity distribution. Astronomy and Astrophysics 551, A67, 2013 link
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Models
Models are given in Stanford Triangle Format (PLY) and Alias Waveform Format (OBJ) - you can use MeshLab or any other tool to convert them to other formats.
- Rutherfordia (wrong inertia tensor) (PLY 38 KB) (OBJ 61 KB)
- Rutherfordia (wrong inertia tensor) (PLY 38 KB) (OBJ 61 KB)
Please note that the models are in planetocentric coordinate system, with Z axis passing through north pole. Actual rotational axis may differ from planetocentric poles, especially for small irregular bodies.
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