Stellar Occultation by 2060 Chiron

✍ Scribed by Schelte J. Bus; Marc W. Buie; David G. Schleicher; William B. Hubbard; Robert L. Marcialis; Richard Hill; Lawrence H. Wasserman; John R. Spencer; Robert L. Millis; Otto G. Franz; Amanda S. Bosh; Edward W. Dunham; Charles H. Ford; James W. Young; J.L. Elliott; Richard Meserole; Catherine B. Olkin; Stephen W. McDonald; Jeffrey A. Foust; Lisa M. Sopata; Reba M. Bandyopadhyay

• Book ID: 102568328
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 347 KB
• Volume: 123
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0173

✦ Synopsis

larger region of dust distributed asymmetrically about Chiron's nucleus. Periodic fluctuations in the dust may have been de-A 14th magnitude double star was occulted by 2060 Chiron tected in one of the lightcurves. If this periodicity is real, and on 1993 November 7. Observations of this event were obtained is induced as a result of Chiron's rotation, then a minimum from five locations in California. An occultation by Chiron's expansion velocity for the dust is found to be ȁ40 m nucleus was recorded at one of these sites, while a possible sec ؊1 .