CCD Photometry of the Centaur 1995 GO

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997icar..126..218b&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 126, Issue 1, pp. 218-224.

Computer Science

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We present new CCD photometry of the Centaur object 1995 GO obtained in April 1996, including a lightcurve, a V - R color, and a surface brightness profile. The apparent brightness implies a circular effective radius of 53.5 km, assuming a 4% albedo. The shape of the lightcurve is compatible with an aspherical rotating body, with a rotation period of 8.870 +/- 0.020 hr. No evidence of cometary activity was found in the observations, allowing us to place an upper limit of 3 kg sec^-1 on the mass loss rate in 1995 GO. We measure the colors V - R = 0.73 +/- 0.04 and B - V = 0.78 +/- 0.05, which fall within the previously reported color range for Centaurs and Kuiper Belt objects.

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