4754 Panthoos

Panthoos
Discovery
Discovered by	Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels
Discovery site	Palomar Observatory
Discovery date	16 October 1977
Designations
MPC designation	4754
Named after	Panthous
Alternative names	5010 T-3
Orbital characteristics^[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	14031 days (38.41 yr)
Aphelion	5.2919 AU (791.66 Gm)
Perihelion	5.1831 AU (775.38 Gm)
Semi-major axis	5.2375 AU (783.52 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.010394
Orbital period	11.99 yr (4378.10 d)
Mean anomaly	118.811°
Mean motion	0° 4^m 56.017^s / day
Inclination	12.327°
Longitude of ascending node	155.060°
Argument of perihelion	202.920°
Earth MOID	4.17546 AU (624.640 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	0.118533 AU (17.7323 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	2.954
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	59 km^[2]
Mean radius	26.575 ± 2.1 km
Rotation period	27.68 h (1.153 d)
Geometric albedo	0.0571 ± 0.010
Absolute magnitude (H)	10.0

4754 Panthoos (5010 T-3) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.

Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 27.68 ± 0.05 hours with a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 magnitude.^[2]

References

↑ "4754 Panthoos (5010 T-3)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
1 2 Mottola, Stefano; Di Martino, Mario; Erikson, Anders; Gonano-Beurer, Maria; Carbognani, Albino; Carsenty, Uri; Hahn, Gerhard; Schober, Hans-Josef; Lahulla, Felix; Delbò, Marco; Lagerkvist, Claes-Ingvar (May 2011). "Rotational Properties of Jupiter Trojans. I. Light Curves of 80 Objects". The Astronomical Journal. 141 (5): 170. Bibcode:2011AJ....141..170M. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/141/5/170.

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