2019 van Albada
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | H. van Gent |
| Discovery site |
Johannesburg Obs. (Leiden Southern Station) |
| Discovery date | 28 September 1935 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 2019 van Albada |
|
Named after
|
Gale Bruno van Albada |
|
1935 SX1 · 1931 JN 1941 HS · 1964 DG 1971 HB · 1975 ND 1975 PL · A911 KD |
|
| main-belt | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 84.60 yr (30899 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.6115 AU (390.67 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8713 AU (279.94 Gm) |
| 2.2414 AU (335.31 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.16514 |
| 3.36 yr (1225.7 d) | |
| 45.512° | |
| 0° 17m 37.392s / day | |
| Inclination | 4.0426° |
| 252.21° | |
| 24.991° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.854252 AU (127.7943 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.49541 AU (373.308 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.613 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 2.729 h (0.1137 d) | |
| SMASS = S | |
| 12.3 | |
2019 van Albada, provisional designation 1935 SX1, is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1935 by Dutch astronomer Hendrik van Gent at Leiden Southern Station, annex to the Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. It is a S-type asteroid.
The asteroid was considered as a flyby target of the NEAR unmanned robotic spacecraft mission in the 1990s. NEAR eventually launched, but visited 253 Mathilde and 433 Eros.
It was named in memory of Dutch astronomer Gale Bruno van Albada (1911–1972), who was director of the Bosscha Observatory and of the Astronomical Institute at Amsterdam.
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