1248 Jugurtha

Jugurtha
Discovery
Discovered by C. Jackson
Discovery site Johannesburg (UO)
Discovery date 1 September 1932
Designations
MPC designation 1248
Named after
Jugurtha
1932 RO
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 114.42 yr (41792 days)
Aphelion 2.7661046 AU (413.80336 Gm)
Perihelion 2.6761567 AU (400.34734 Gm)
2.721131 AU (407.0754 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.0165277
4.49 yr (1639.5 d)
171.26911°
 13m 10.465s / day
Inclination 9.138530°
79.38918°
348.03120°
Earth MOID 1.68945 AU (252.738 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.30568 AU (344.925 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.340
Physical characteristics
Dimensions est. diam. 76km[2]
12.910 h (0.5379 d)
13.0 to 15.3
9.9

    1248 Jugurtha (also known as 1932 RO, 1930 DU, A901 VE, and A915 XB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1932, by Cyril V. Jackson at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa,[2][3] and independently rediscovered later in the same month by Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory in Ukraine.[3] It is named after Jugurtha, who was a king of Numidia, in North Africa, in the second century BC.[3]

    1248 Jugurtha is estimated to be approximately 76 km in diameter,[2] and has a synodic period of rotation of approximately 12.19 hours.[2][4]

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