The occultation of AG+29°398 by 93 Minerva |
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| Authors: | R.L. Millis L.H. Wasserman E. Bowell O.G. Franz R. Nye W. Osborn A. Klemola |
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| Affiliation: | Planetary Research Center, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002 USA;Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859 USA;Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA |
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| Abstract: | The occultation of AG+29°398 by 93 Minerva on 22 November 1982 was successflly observed at 10 sites. The data are best fitted by a circular limb profile having a diameter of 170.8 ± 1.4 km, a value that agrees well with the published radiometric diameter for this asteriod. However, evidence of significant departure from a spherical shape is found in the occultation observations and in photometric measurements of Minerva made at Lowell Observatory over several months. Additional observations are needed to specify definitively the three-dimensional figure of Minerva. |
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