12564 Ikeller

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12564 Ikeller
Discovery [1]
Discovered by W. Bickel
Discovery site Bergisch Gladbach Obs.
Discovery date 22 September 1998
Designations
MPC designation 12564 Ikeller
Named after
Ingeborg Bickel–Keller
(discoverer's wife)[2]
1998 SO49 · 1988 RA7
1991 EG5 · 1993 SK13
main-belt · Koronis[3]
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 26.84 yr (9,802 days)     
Aphelion 2.9406 AU
Perihelion 2.7273 AU
2.8339 AU
Eccentricity 0.0376
4.77 yr (1,743 days)
344.61°
Inclination 1.6199°
180.04°
117.73°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 5.369±0.259 km[4]
5.17 km (calculated)[3]
7.0423±0.0196 h (S)[5]
7.0321±0.0196 h (R)[5]
0.2225±0.0495[4]
0.24 (assumed)[3]
S[3]
13.6[1][3][4]
14.282±0.007 (S)[5]
13.644±0.003 (R)[5]
14.16±0.23[6]

12564 Ikeller, provisional designation 1998 SO49, is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by German amateur astronomer Wolf Bickel at his private Bergisch Gladbach Observatory on 22 September 1998.[2]

The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, which is named after 158 Koronis and consists of about 300 known bodies. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,743 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and a typically low inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] The first precovery was obtained at ESO's La Silla Observatory in 1988, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 10 years prior to its discovery.[2]

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 5.4 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.22,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 and thus calculates a smaller diameter of 5.2 kilometers, as the higher the albedo (reflectivity), the smaller the body's diameter at a constant absolute magnitude (brightness).[3] In August 2012, a photometric light-curve analysis at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory, California, rendered a rotation period of 7.0423±0.0196 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.44 in magnitude (U=2).[5]

The minor planet was named by the discoverer after his wife, Ingeborg Bickel–Keller (b. 1941).[2] Naming citation was published on 16 January 2014 (M.P.C. 86713).[7]

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