1499 Pori
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Y. Väisälä |
Discovery site | Turku |
Discovery date | October 16, 1938 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 1499 |
Named after
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Pori |
1938 UF | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Aphelion | 3.1628733 |
Perihelion | 2.1761169 |
Eccentricity | 0.1848208 |
1593.0966520 | |
34.30953 | |
Inclination | 12.20542 |
239.88986 | |
73.47937 | |
Physical characteristics | |
11.2 | |
1499 Pori (1938 UF) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1938, by Y. Väisälä at Turku,[1] and is named after the city of Pori, Finland.
Photometric observations made in 2003 at the Santana Observatory in Rancho Cucamonga, California, give a synodic rotation period of 8.63 ± 0.005 hours. The light curve shows a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.04 in magnitude.[1]
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