Discovery | |
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Discovered by | P. Pravec |
Discovery site | Ondřejov Obs. |
Discovery date | 3 April 1995 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 7204 Ondřejov |
Named after
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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 |
±0.163 km 5.685 6.25 km (calculated) |
±0.0101 5.2334h | |
0.10 (assumed) ±0.009 0.181 |
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S | |
13.8 · 13.7 · ±0.005 (R) · 13.687±0.19 · 14.14 13.67 | |
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 ±0.0101 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.55 in 5.2334magnitude (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.