2018RC: A Fast Rotating Tumbling Asteroid
Abstract
Photometric observations of near-Earth asteroid 2018 RC were made in September 2018, few days after its discovery. Lightcurve analysis shows a tumbling nature with a principal rotational period of 0.16548 ± 0.00001 h with an amplitude 0.57 mag and a secondary rotational period 0.26201 ± 0.00001 h with an amplitude 0.20 mag. Multi-band photometric sessions shows color indexes VR = 0.48 ± 0.07 mag and R-I = 0.40 ± 0.04 mag.
- Publication:
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Minor Planet Bulletin
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019MPBu...46..188F
- Keywords:
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- Minor Planets;
- Asteroids;
- Light Curves;
- Photometry;
- Periods