724 Hapag
Minor planet orbiting the Sun
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724 Hapag is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt[3] that was found by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911 and named after the German shipping company Hamburg America Line.[3] It was assigned a provisional name of 1911 NC, then became a lost asteroid until it was rediscovered in 1988 as 1988 VG2 by Tsutomu Hioki and N. Kawasato at Okutama, Japan.[4]
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | J. Palisa |
| Discovery site | Vienna Obs. |
| Discovery date | 21 October 1911 |
| Designations | |
| (724) Hapag | |
| 1911 NC, 1988 VG2 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 104.39 yr (38129 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.0675 AU (458.89 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.8441 AU (275.87 Gm) |
| 2.4558 AU (367.38 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.24908 |
| 3.85 yr (1405.7 d) | |
| 73.788° | |
| 0° 15m 21.96s / day | |
| Inclination | 11.707° |
| 204.27° | |
| 205.50° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 3.1305 h (0.13044 d)[1][2] | |
| 13.9[1] | |
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 3.1305 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.11 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[2]
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