Photometric Analysis of the Very Long Period and Tumbling Asteroid 1278 Kenya

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Apr 2012

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The Minor Planet Bulletin (ISSN 1052-8091). Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Obse

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1278 Kenya is a long period main-belt asteroid. It was observed in collaboration among four photometrists located over two months at widely spaced locations. This asteroid is in non-principal axis (NPA) rotation, also known as tumbling. The primary period was determined to be 188 ± 1 h with a candidate second period of 127 ± 1 h. The quality of the tumbling solution is rated as PAR= ˜2, tending to ˜3.

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