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716 Berkeley
Discovery
Discovered by	J. Palisa
Discovery site	Vienna Obs.
Discovery date	30 July 1911
Designations
MPC designation	(716) Berkeley
Pronunciation	/ˈbɜːrkliː/
Named after	Berkeley ; (U.S. City, California)
Alternative designations	A911 OC · 1947 CH; 1952 FA · A906 OB; 1911 MD
Minor planet category	main-belt · (middle); background ;
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 31 May 2020 (JD 2459000.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	113.32 yr (41,390 d)
Aphelion	3.0557 AU
Perihelion	2.5682 AU
Semi-major axis	2.8120 AU
Eccentricity	0.0867
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.72 yr (1,722 d)
Mean anomaly	136.21°
Mean motion	0° 12m 32.4s / day
Inclination	8.4872°
Longitude of ascending node	145.89°
Argument of perihelion	56.811°
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter	19.768±0.167 km; 21.28±1.5 km; 21.55±0.57 km;
Synodic rotation period	15.55±0.04 h
Geometric albedo	0.1801±0.028; 0.182±0.011; 0.220±0.045;
Spectral type	Tholen = S ; SMASS = S ; B–V = 0.860±0.068; U–B = 0.351±0.068;
Absolute magnitude (H)	10.7; 10.84;

716 Berkeley (prov. designation: A911 OC or 1911 MD) is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Observatory on 30 July 1911.^[1] The stony S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 15.6 hours and measures approximately 21 kilometers (13 miles) in diameter. It was named after the city of Berkeley, California, where the discoverer's colleague Armin Otto Leuschner (1868–1953) was the director of the local observatory.^[3]

Orbit and classification

Berkeley is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.^[5]^[6]^[7] It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.6–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,722 days; semi-major axis of 2.81 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic.^[4] The body's observation arc begins with its first observation at Heidelberg on 16 July 1906, five years prior to its official discovery observation by Johann Palisa at Vienna.^[1]

Naming

According to Alexander Schnell, this minor planet was named by the discoverer after the U.S. city of Berkeley in California, where American astronomer and colleague Armin Otto Leuschner (1868–1953) was a long-time director at the Leuschner Observatory (then called Students' Observatory). Known for his books Celestial Mechanics and The Minor Planets of the Hecuba Group, Leuschner worked on the orbit determination of 719 Albert, which was originally discovered by Palisa in 1911 but remained a lost asteroid until 2000. The naming citation was not mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955.^[3] Palisa also named asteroid 718 Erida after Leuschner's daughter. The lunar crater Leuschner and asteroid 1361 Leuschneria, discovered by Eugène Delporte in 1935, were later named directly after the American astronomer.

Physical characteristics

In both the Tholen and SMASS classification, Berkeley is a common, stony S-type asteroid.^[4] It is also an S-type in the Bus–DeMeo classification,^[13] while in the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomic variants of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), this asteroid is a K-type and Sq-subtype which transitions to the uncommon Q-type, respectively.^[6]^[14]

Rotation period

In May 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Berkeley was obtained from photometric observations by American amateur astronomer Joe Garlitz at his Elgin Observatory in Oregon. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 15.55±0.04 hours with a brightness variation of 0.25±0.03 magnitude (U=2+).^[a] Lower rated lightcurves obtained by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist in 1977, and by David Romeuf in 2018, gave a divergent period of larger than 17 h and 34.3±0.6 h with an amplitude of larger than 0.2 and 0.25±0.02 magnitude, respectively (U=1/2).^[15]^[16]

Diameter and albedo

According to the surveys carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, and the Japanese Akari satellite, Berkeley measures (19.768±0.167), (21.28±1.5) and (21.55±0.57) kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of (0.220±0.045), (0.1801±0.028) and (0.182±0.011), respectively.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2027 and a diameter of 21.38 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.7.^[12] Alternative mean-diameters published by the WISE team include (21.519±0.054 km) and (21.89±0.78 km) with a corresponding albedo of (0.1808±0.0518) and (0.170±0.017).^[6]^[12]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Lightcurve plot of (716) Berkeley. Rotation period 15.577 hours by Joe Garlitz (2009). Quality code is 2+. Summary figures at the LCDB and J. Garlitz (archived) websites.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "716 Berkeley (A911 OC)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language. (Of the two pronunciations, the first is used for UC Berkeley.)
^ ^a ^b ^c Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(716) Berkeley". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 69. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_717. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 716 Berkeley (A911 OC)" (2019-11-10 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Asteroid 716 Berkeley – Proper Elements". AstDyS-2, Asteroids – Dynamic Site. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Asteroid 716 Berkeley". Small Bodies Data Ferret. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b Zappalà, V.; Bendjoya, Ph.; Cellino, A.; Farinella, P.; Froeschle, C. (1997). "Asteroid Dynamical Families". NASA Planetary Data System: EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. Retrieved 16 June 2020.} (PDS main page)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mainzer, A. K.; Bauer, J. M.; Cutri, R. M.; Grav, T.; Kramer, E. A.; Masiero, J. R.; et al. (June 2016). "NEOWISE Diameters and Albedos V1.0". NASA Planetary Data System: EAR-A-COMPIL-5-NEOWISEDIAM-V1.0. Bibcode:2016PDSS..247.....M. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b Masiero, Joseph R.; Grav, T.; Mainzer, A. K.; Nugent, C. R.; Bauer, J. M.; Stevenson, R.; et al. (August 2014). "Main-belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-infrared Albedos". The Astrophysical Journal. 791 (2): 11. arXiv:1406.6645. Bibcode:2014ApJ...791..121M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/121. S2CID 119293330.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tedesco, E. F.; Noah, P. V.; Noah, M.; Price, S. D. (October 2004). "IRAS Minor Planet Survey V6.0". NASA Planetary Data System. 12: IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0. Bibcode:2004PDSS...12.....T. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Usui, Fumihiko; Kuroda, Daisuke; Müller, Thomas G.; Hasegawa, Sunao; Ishiguro, Masateru; Ootsubo, Takafumi; et al. (October 2011). "Asteroid Catalog Using Akari: AKARI/IRC Mid-Infrared Asteroid Survey". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 63 (5): 1117–1138. Bibcode:2011PASJ...63.1117U. doi:10.1093/pasj/63.5.1117. (online, AcuA catalog p. 153)
^ ^a ^b ^c "LCDB Data for (716) Berkeley". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB). Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ DeMeo, Francesca E.; Binzel, Richard P.; Slivan, Stephen M.; Bus, Schelte J. (July 2009). "An extension of the Bus asteroid taxonomy into the near-infrared" (PDF). Icarus. 202 (1): 160–180. Bibcode:2009Icar..202..160D. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.005. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2020. (Catalog at PDS)
^ Lazzaro, D.; Angeli, C. A.; Carvano, J. M.; Mothé-Diniz, T.; Duffard, R.; Florczak, M. (November 2004). "S3OS2: the visible spectroscopic survey of 820 asteroids" (PDF). Icarus. 172 (1): 179–220. Bibcode:2004Icar..172..179L. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.006. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ Lagerkvist, C.-I. (December 1977). "Photographic Photometry of the Asteroids 716 Berkeley and 1245 Calvinia". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement. 34: 203. Bibcode:1978A&AS...34..203L.
^ Behrend, Raoul. "Asteroids and comets rotation curves – (716) Berkeley". Geneva Observatory. Retrieved 15 June 2020.