5196 Bustelli ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a stony

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from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 September 1973, by Dutch astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and

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the

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. The S-type asteroid was named after Italian-Swiss artist Franz Anton Bustelli.

Orbit and classification

''Bustelli'' is a core member of the

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(), a prominent family of stony S-type asteroid and the largest one in the intermediate main belt with more than 5,000 members. It orbits the Sun in the

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asteroid belt at a distance of 2.3–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 5 months (1,619 days;

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of 2.7 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 13 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a

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taken at Palomar Obsrvatory in March 1971.

Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey

The

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"T-2" stands for the second Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey, named after the fruitful collaboration of the Palomar and Leiden Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the

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s to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory where

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was carried out. The trio is credited with the discovery of several thousand asteroid discoveries.

Naming

This minor planet was named after Italian-Swiss artist Franz Anton Bustelli (1723–1763), a famous modeller of figures for the

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. The official naming citation was published by the

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on 1 September 1993 ().

Physical characteristics

''Bustelli'' has an absolute magnitude of 12.8. In the

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, it is a stony S-type asteroid.

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, ''Bustelli'' measures 5.944 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.146.

Rotation period

As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of ''Bustelli'' has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's

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and shape remain unknown.

References

External links

Lightcurve Database Query
(LCDB), at ''www.minorplanet.info''
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
Google books

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