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3782 Celle, the Glossary

Index 3782 Celle

3782 Celle, provisional designation, is a bright Vestian asteroid and asynchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 46 relations: Absolute magnitude, Albedo, Asteroid, Asteroid belt, Asteroid family, Asteroid spectral types, Astronomical unit, Binary asteroid, Brorfelde Observatory, Celle, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Degree (angle), Diameter, Ecliptic, Eucrite, HED meteorite, Holbæk, Impact crater, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Julian day, Julian year (astronomy), Kirkwood gap, Light curve, List of minor planet discoverers, Magnitude (astronomy), Minor planet, Minor Planet Center, Minor-planet moon, New Mexico Highlands University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Observation arc, Occultation, Orbital eccentricity, Orbital inclination, Orbital period, Pan-STARRS, Photometry (astronomy), Poul Jensen (astronomer), Rheasilvia, Rotation period (astronomy), Semi-major and semi-minor axes, V-type asteroid, Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, Vesta family, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, 4 Vesta.

  2. Discoveries by Poul Jensen (astronomer)
  3. V-type asteroids (SMASS)

Absolute magnitude

In astronomy, absolute magnitude is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object on an inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale.

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Albedo

Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

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Asteroid family

An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semimajor axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination.

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Asteroid spectral types

An asteroid spectral type is assigned to asteroids based on their reflectance spectrum, color, and sometimes albedo.

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Astronomical unit

The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.

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Binary asteroid

A binary asteroid is a system of two asteroids orbiting their common barycenter. 3782 Celle and binary asteroid are binary asteroids.

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Brorfelde Observatory

Brorfelde Observatory (Brorfelde Observatoriet; obs. code: 054) is an astronomical observatory located in Brorfelde near Holbæk, Denmark.

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Celle

Celle is a town and capital of the district of Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany.

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Crimean Astrophysical Observatory

The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO, obs. code: 095) is located at Nauchnij research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on the Crimean peninsula.

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Degree (angle)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Ecliptic

The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun.

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Eucrite

Eucrites are achondritic stony meteorites, many of which originate from the surface of the asteroid 4 Vesta and are part of the HED meteorite clan.

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HED meteorite

HED meteorites are a clan (subgroup) of achondrite meteorites.

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Holbæk

Holbæk is a town in Denmark and the seat of Holbæk municipality with a population of 30,503 (1 January 2024).

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Impact crater

An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.

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Julian day

The Julian day is the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period, and is used primarily by astronomers, and in software for easily calculating elapsed days between two events (e.g. food production date and sell by date).

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Julian year (astronomy)

In astronomy, a Julian year (symbol: a or aj) is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of SI seconds each.

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Kirkwood gap

A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of the semi-major axes (or equivalently of the orbital periods) of the orbits of main-belt asteroids.

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Light curve

In astronomy, a light curve is a graph of the light intensity of a celestial object or region as a function of time, typically with the magnitude of light received on the y-axis and with time on the x-axis.

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List of minor planet discoverers

This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects).

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Magnitude (astronomy)

In astronomy, magnitude is measure of the brightness of an object, usually in a defined passband.

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Minor planet

According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.

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Minor Planet Center

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Minor-planet moon

A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. 3782 Celle and minor-planet moon are binary asteroids.

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New Mexico Highlands University

New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) is a public university in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech or NMT), formerly New Mexico School of Mines, is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico, United States.

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Observation arc

In observational astronomy, the observation arc (or arc length) of a Solar System body is the time period between its earliest and latest observations, used for tracing the body's path.

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Occultation

An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.

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Orbital eccentricity

In astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.

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Orbital inclination

Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.

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Orbital period

The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object.

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Pan-STARRS

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects.

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Photometry (astronomy)

In astronomy, photometry, from Greek photo- ("light") and -metry ("measure"), is a technique used in astronomy that is concerned with measuring the flux or intensity of light radiated by astronomical objects.

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Poul Jensen (astronomer)

Poul B. Jensen is a Danish astronomer and a discoverer of 98 minor planets while working at Brorfelde Observatory.

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Rheasilvia

Rheasilvia is the largest impact crater on the asteroid Vesta.

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Rotation period (astronomy)

In astronomy, the rotation period or spin period of a celestial object (e.g., star, planet, moon, asteroid) has two definitions.

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Semi-major and semi-minor axes

In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.

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V-type asteroid

A V-type asteroid or Vestoid is an asteroid whose spectral type is that of 4 Vesta.

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Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope

The Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States.

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Vesta family

The Vesta family (adj. Vestian) is a family of asteroids. 3782 Celle and Vesta family are Vesta asteroids.

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009.

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4 Vesta

Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of. 3782 Celle and 4 Vesta are minor planet object articles (numbered), Named minor planets, v-type asteroids (SMASS) and Vesta asteroids.

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See also

Discoveries by Poul Jensen (astronomer)

V-type asteroids (SMASS)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3782_Celle

Also known as Celle (asteroid).