![]() Shape model of Laugier from its
lightcurve | |
Discovery [1] | |
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Discovered by | L. Boyer |
Discovery site | Algiers Obs. |
Discovery date | 7 March 1949 |
Designations | |
(1597) Laugier | |
Named after |
Marguerite Laugier (French astronomer) [2] |
1949 EB | |
main-belt · ( outer) [3] | |
Orbital characteristics [1] | |
Epoch 4 September 2017 ( JD 2458000.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 68.01 yr (24,840 days) |
Aphelion | 3.1024 AU |
Perihelion | 2.5869 AU |
2.8446 AU | |
Eccentricity | 0.0906 |
4.80 yr (1,752 days) | |
67.764 ° | |
0° 12m 19.44s / day | |
Inclination | 11.812° |
158.63° | |
52.042° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 12.885±0.169
[4] 24.30 km (calculated) [3] |
8.0199
h
[3] 8.02272 h [5] | |
0.057 (assumed)
[3] 0.244±0.033 [4] | |
C [3] | |
11.7 [1] · 11.8 [3] | |
1597 Laugier, provisional designation 1949 EB, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 7 March 1949, by French astronomer Louis Boyer at the north African Algiers Observatory in Algeria. [6] It was later named after French astronomer Marguerite Laugier. [2]
This asteroid orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 10 months (1,752 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 12 ° with respect to the ecliptic. [1] As no precoveries were taken and no prior identifications were made, Laugier's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation in 1949. [6]
Laugier is a presumed C-type asteroid [3]
A rotational lightcurve for this asteroid from an unpublished source at the Asteroid Light Curve Database gave a well-defined rotation period of 8.020 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.68 and 0.71 in magnitude ( U=3). [3] A similar period of 8.023 hours was previously obtained from remodeled data of the Lowell photometric database in March 2016. [1] [5]
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Laugier measures 12.9 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.244, [4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057, and calculates a diameter of 24.3 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.8. [3]
This minor planet was named after French astronomer and asteroid discoverer Marguerite Laugier (1896–1976). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ( M.P.C. 4418). [7]