729 Watsonia is a rare-type asteroid and namesake of the Watsonia family from the central region of the asteroid belt . It was named after the Canadian -American astronomer James C. Watson . Watsonia occulted the star 54 Leonis (HIP 53417, a 4.3 Magnitude Star) on 2013 Mar 03 at 01:48.[ 3]
Description
This object is the namesake of the Watsonia family , an Asteroid family of approximately 100 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements ; hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination .[ 4]
References
^ "watsonia" Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press .(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) ^ Yeomans, Donald K., "729 Watsonia" , JPL Small-Body Database Browser , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory , retrieved 5 May 2016 . ^ Pier Paolo Ricci (29 November 2012), Almanacco astronomico 2013 Astronomical almanac 2013 ISBN 978-1-291-21157-3 ^ Novaković, Bojan; et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus , vol. 216, no. 1, pp. 69– 81, arXiv :1108.3740 Bibcode :2011Icar..216...69N , doi :10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016 .
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