6460 Bassano
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by |
U. Quadri L. Strabla |
| Discovery site | Bassano Bresciano Obs. |
| Discovery date | 26 October 1992 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | (6460) Bassano |
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Named after
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Bassano Bresciano (Italian village) |
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1992 UK6 · 1985 TR2 1989 YM6 |
|
| main-belt · Flora | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 31.06 yr (11,345 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.4971 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.0183 AU |
| 2.2577 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1060 |
| 3.39 yr (1,239 days) | |
| 345.11° | |
| 0° 17m 25.8s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.2272° |
| 299.04° | |
| 181.66° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions |
4.252±0.108 km 4.94 km (calculated) |
|
2.9131±0.0034 h 2.9145±0.0034 h |
|
| 0.24 (assumed) 0.389±0.048 |
|
| S | |
| 13.5 · 13.576±0.002 (R) · 13.7 · 14.291±0.003 (S) | |
6460 Bassano, provisional designation 1992 UK6, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 October 1992, by Italian amateur astronomers Ulisse Quadri and Luca Strabla at the Bassano Bresciano Observatory in northern Italy.
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,239 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was obtained at the French Caussols Observatory in 1985, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 7 years prior to its discovery.
Two rotational light-curve of this asteroid were obtained from photometric observations at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory in August 2012. The light-curves rendered a rotation period of 2.9145±0.0034 and 2.9131±0.0034 hours with a brightness variation of 0.38 and 0.29 in magnitude, respectively (U=2/2).
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