The pole orientation of asteroid 433 Eros determined by photometric astrometry |
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| Authors: | Ronald C Taylor |
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| Institution: | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA |
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| Abstract: | Refinements to the pole-determination method photometric astrometry (PA) were completed in 1983 (R. C. Taylor and E. F. Tedesco, 1983, Icarus54, 13–22). A goal is to redo the pole analysis for every asteroid whose pole had been determined from earlier versions of PA: Previous PA poles are reviewed in this paper. Asteroid 433 Eros is in that collection and has redone. The result are prograde rotation; a sidereal period of 0.219588 ± 0.000005 day; and a north pole at 22° longitude, +9° latitude. The uncertainty of the pole is 10°. The pole position of Eros determined by C.D. Vesely (1971, In Physical Studies of Minor Planets (T. Gehrels, Ed.), pp. 133–140, NASA SP-267) and Dunlap (1976, Icarus28, 69–78), using earlier versions of photometric astrometry, were within 21 and 7°, respectively, of the present result. |
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