4008 Corbin, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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from the inner regions of the
asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 January 1977, by staff members of the
Felix Aguilar Observatory
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's (formerly known as both, Yale-Columbia Southern Station, and Carlos U. Cesco Station, EACUC) at the
Leoncito Astronomical Complex in Argentina.
Orbit and classification
''Corbin'' is a member of the
Phocaea family The Phocaea family ( ; adj. ''Phocaean''; ) is a collisional family of asteroids located between 2.25 and 2.5 AU in the inner region of the asteroid belt. Phocaea asteroids are of stony S-type composition and have orbits with eccentricities ...
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a group of asteroids with similar orbital characteristics. It orbits the Sun in the
inner
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main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.9
AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,324 days). Its orbit has an
eccentricity of 0.21 and an
inclination of 26
° with respect to the
ecliptic.
Physical characteristics
''Corbin'' has been characterized as a common stony
S-type asteroid by
PanSTARRS photometric survey.
A photometric
lightcurve analysis by Czech astronomer
Petr Pravec at
Ondřejov Observatory
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in 2010 rendered a well-defined
rotation period
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of hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.12 in
magnitude ().
According to the survey carried out by the
NEOWISE mission of NASA's
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid has an
albedo of 0.26 and 0.28 and a diameter of 5.4 and 6.0 kilometers, respectively,
while the ''Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link'' (CALL) assumes a somewhat lower albedo of 0.23 and calculates a correspondingly larger diameter of 6.4 kilometers.
Naming
This
minor planet was named after American couple
Brenda
Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language.
Origin
The overall accepted origin for the female name Brenda is the Old Nordic male name ''Brandr'' meaning both ''torch'' and ''sword'': evidently the male name Brandr took root in areas ...
and
Thomas Corbin. He was an astronomer at
USNO, in charge of the Argentinian EACUC station, and involved in a number of astrometric projects, such as the ''Astrographic Catalogue Reference Stars''. His wife Brenda, who also worked at the EACUC station, is prolific astronomical librarian, known for her work with the
Special Libraries Association and in
IAU
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's ''Working Group on Nomenclature''.
The official naming citation was published by the
Minor Planet Center
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Function
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on 11 February 1998 .
Notes
References
External links
Ondrejov Asteroid Photometry Project Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2010)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books
– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
– Minor Planet Center
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