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7204 Ondřejov

7204 Ondřejov
Discovery 
Discovered by P. Pravec
Discovery site Ondřejov Obs.
Discovery date 3 April 1995
Designations
MPC designation 7204 Ondřejov
Named after
Ondřejov
(town and observatory)
1995 GH · 1980 WM3
main-belt · (middle)
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 35.26 yr (12,877 days)
Aphelion 2.9931 AU
Perihelion 2.3466 AU
2.6699 AU
Eccentricity 0.1211
4.36 yr (1,593 days)
123.21°
0° 13m 33.24s / day
Inclination 4.8613°
172.34°
235.60°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 5.685±0.163 km
6.25 km (calculated)
5.2334±0.0101 h
0.10 (assumed)
0.181±0.009
S
13.8 · 13.7 · 13.687±0.005 (R) · 13.67±0.19 · 14.14

7204 Ondřejov, provisional designation 1995 GH, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 3 April 1995, by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory near Prague, Czech Republic. This asteroid was the observatory's first numbered minor planet discovery.

The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.3–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 4 months (1,593 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.12 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1980, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 15 years prior to its discovery.

A rotational light-curve was obtained based on a photometric observations at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory, California, in December 2011. It showed a rotation period of 5.2334±0.0101 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.55 in magnitude (U=2).

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 5.9 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.18, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a lower albedo of 0.10 and calculates a diameter of 6.3 kilometers.


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