5900 Jensen
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | P. Jensen |
| Discovery site | Brorfelde Obs. |
| Discovery date | 3 October 1986 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | (5900) Jensen |
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Named after
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Paul and Bodil Jensen (discoverer and wife) |
| 1986 TL · 1930 UT 1969 PD |
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main-belt · (outer) Lixiaohua |
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| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 86.46 yr (31,578 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.8235 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.4821 AU |
| 3.1528 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2127 |
| 5.60 yr (2,045 days) | |
| 222.85° | |
| 0° 10m 33.96s / day | |
| Inclination | 9.0509° |
| 302.09° | |
| 35.061° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 19.934±0.195 km |
| 0.030±0.014 | |
| 12.2 | |
5900 Jensen, provisional designation 1986 TL, is a dark Lixiaohua asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 3 October 1986, by Danish astronomer Poul Jensen at the Brorfelde Observatory in Denmark. The asteroid was named for the discoverer and his wife Bodil Jensen.
Jensen is a member of the Lixiaohua family, an outer-belt asteroid family with more than 700 known members, consisting of C-type and X-type asteroids. The family's namesake is 3556 Lixiaohua.
It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.5–3.8 AU once every 5 years and 7 months (2,045 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 9° with respect to the ecliptic.
The asteroid was first identified as 1930 UT at Lowell Observatory in October 1930. The body's observation arc begins also at Lowell Observatory, with a precovery taken two days before its first identification, and 56 years prior to its official discovery observation at Brorfelde.
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Jensen measures 19.934 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedoof 0.030.
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