14627 Emilkowalski

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**14627 Emilkowalski**
Discovery^[1]
Discovered by	Richard A. Kowalski
Discovery site	Quail Hollow Observatory
Discovery date	November 7, 1998
Designations
MPC designation	14627
Alternate name(s)	1998 VA
Minor planet category	main belt ^[2]
Orbital characteristics^[3]
Epoch November 30, 2008
Ap	2.9893 AU
Peri	2.2074 AU
Semi-major axis	2.59836 AU
Eccentricity	0.150464
Orbital period	1529.84 days (4.19 years)
Mean anomaly	119.454°
Inclination	17.734°
Longitude of ascending node	41.558°
Argument of peri	44.29°
Physical characteristics
Rotation period	11.131 hours ^[4]
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.1 ^[5]

14627 Emilkowalski (1998 VA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1998 by Richard A. Kowalski ^[1] at Quail Hollow Observatory. This asteroid is believed to result from the collisional destruction of a larger parent body approximately 220,000 years ago.^[6] It was named after the discover's father.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000)". IAU: Minor Planet Center. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs010001.html. Retrieved December 7, 2008.
^ "14627 Emilkowalski (1998 VA)". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=14627+Emilkowalski. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
^ "(14627) Emilkowalski". AstDyS. University of Pisa. http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.0&n=14627. Retrieved December 11, 2008.
^ Krugly et al. (may 2008). "Photometry of asteroids: detection of the YORP effect" (PDF). The Solar System Bodies: from Optics to Geology. Kharkiv, Ukraine: Astronomical Institute of Kharkiv. http://www.astron.kharkov.ua/conference/ssb/08/abstracts/SSB08-Krugly.pdf. Retrieved December 7, 2008.
^ Tholen (2007). "Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes". EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTERMAG-V11.0.. Planetary Data System. Archived from the original on April 15, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000645/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/astermag.html. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
^ Nesvorný and Vokrouhlický; Vokrouhlický, D. (2006). "New Candidates for Recent Asteroid Breakups". The Astronomical Journal 132 (5): 1950–1958. Bibcode 2006AJ....132.1950N. doi:10.1086/507989. http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1538-3881/132/5/1950/205239.html.
^ Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (fifth ed.). Germany: Springer. p. 815. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA815. Retrieved December 28, 2008.

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