It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.9–5.6 AU once every 12 years and 1 month (4,427 days;semi-major axis of 5.28 AU). Its orbit has aneccentricity of 0.07 and aninclination of 22° with respect to theecliptic.[4] The body'sobservation arc begins at Heidelberg in October 1927, more than 8 years after its official discovery observation.[1]
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1997 were used to build alightcurve showing arotation period of6.5819±0.0007 hours with a brightness variation of0.29±0.01magnitude. A 2009 study yielded a period of6.592±0.004 hours, in reasonable agreement with the previous result.[5][14]
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical SatelliteIRAS, the JapaneseAkari satellite and theNEOWISE mission of NASA'sWide-field Infrared Survey Explorer,Agamemnon measures between 131.04 and 185.30 kilometers in diameter, based on a commonabsolute magnitude of 7.89 and a surfacealbedo between 0.037 and 0.072.[11][12][13] A concurring diameter estimate of169±3 kilometers from an occultation event(see below) has also been obtained.[9] TheCollaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with the results obtained by IRAS, that is, an albedo of 0.0444 and a diameter of 166.66 kilometers based on anabsolute magnitude of 7.89.[5]
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Note: missing data was completed with figures from the JPL SBDB (query) and from the LCDB (query form) for the WISE/NEOWISE and SIMPS catalogs, respectively. These figures are given in italics. Also, listing is incomplete above #100.
A 2012 stellaroccultation produced a 2D shape model of roughly190.6 km × 143.8 km (with an irregular, skewed outline)[10] and are suggestive ofAgamemnon to have asatellite of approximately5+5 −2 kilometers in diameter orbiting at278±5 km from the primary's center.[9]
^Lightcurve plots of (911) Agamemnon from March 2014 byRobert Stephens at the Center for Solar System Studies (U81) with a period of6.59±0.01 and an amplitude of 0.21 mag. Quality code is 3- (lightcurve rating at CS3). Summary figures at theLCDB andCS3.