The enigmatic lightcurve for the Hungaria asteroid 5641 McCleese

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006mpbu...33...21w&link_type=abstract

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

Physics

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Minor Planets, Light Curves

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Photometric observations of the Hungaria member asteroid 5641 McCleese were made from May to July 2005. The lightcurve showed unusual characteristics that made a final solution difficult. A part of the data fit with a synodic period of 7.268±0.001h (or 14.54h±0.01h) with an amplitude of 0.04±0.01m. However, some data showed very different behavior, having more rapid variations and larger amplitudes up to 0.13m. So far, there are no explanations for the anomalies. We discuss two possible interpretations, tumbling and asynchronous binary, but neither seems to fit well with the data.

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