| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | LINEAR |
| Discovery site | Lincoln Lab ETS |
| Discovery date | 14 September 1998 |
| Designations | |
| (13732) Woodall | |
Named after | Ashley Renee Woodall(DCYSC)[2] |
| 1998 RC56 · 1989 EU5 1991 VS13 · 1997 LA16 | |
| main-belt · Vestian[3] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 27.75 yr (10,135 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.6124AU |
| Perihelion | 2.1366 AU |
| 2.3745 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1002 |
| 3.66yr (1,336 days) | |
| 13.655° | |
| 0° 16m 9.84s / day | |
| Inclination | 6.0477° |
| 204.72° | |
| 217.49° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 3.92 km(calculated)[3] |
| 8.2987±0.0005h[4] | |
| 0.20(assumed)[3] | |
| S[3][5] B–V =0.864±0.147[6] V–R =0.468±0.068[6] | |
| 14.4[1][3] · 15.23±0.10[5] | |
13732 Woodall, provisional designation1998 RC56, is a stony Vestianasteroid from the inner regions of theasteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 September 1998, by theLincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team atLincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in Socorro, New Mexico.[7]
Woodall is a member of theVesta family, which is named after4 Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in theinner main-belt at a distance of 2.1–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,336 days). Its orbit has aneccentricity of 0.10 and aninclination of 6° with respect to theecliptic.[1] The firstprecovery was taken atSiding Spring Observatory in 1989, extending the asteroid'sobservation arc by 9 years prior to its official discovery observation.[7]
Woodall has been characterized as a commonS-type asteroid byPan-STARRS photometric survey.[5]
A rotationallightcurve was obtained based onphotometric observations by Czech astronomerPetr Pravec at theOndřejov Observatory in September 2009. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-definedrotation period of8.2987 hours with a brightness amplitude of0.27 inmagnitude (U=3).[4]
TheCollaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo forstony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 3.9 kilometers with anabsolute magnitude of 14.4.[3]
Thisminor planet was named after Ashley Renee Woodall (born 1987) student at the U.S. Austin Academy for Excellence in Garland, Texas. In 2002, she was a finalist of theDiscovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a science and engineering competition.[2] The approved naming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 21 October 2002 (M.P.C. 46767).[8]
