1248 Jugurtha

Jugurtha
Discovery
Discovered by	C. Jackson
Discovery site	Johannesburg (UO)
Discovery date	September 1, 1932
Designations
MPC designation	1248
Named after	Jugurtha
Alternative names	1932 RO
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion	2.7610886
Perihelion	2.6854052
Eccentricity	0.0138958
Orbital period	1641.4549072
Mean anomaly	240.20258
Inclination	9.14595
Longitude of ascending node	79.52708
Argument of perihelion	340.56608
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	est. diam. 76km
Apparent magnitude	13.0 to 15.3
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.7
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1248 Jugurtha (also known as 1932 RO, 1930 DU, A901 VE, and A915 XB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1932, by Cyril V. Jackson at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa,^[1]^[2] and independently rediscovered later in the same month by Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory in Ukraine.^[2] It is named after Jugurtha, who was a king of Numidia, in North Africa, in the second century BC.^[2]

1248 Jugurtha is estimated to be approximately 76 km in diameter,^[1] and has a synodic period of rotation of approximately 12.19 hours.^[1]^[3]

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