11264 claudiomaccone, provisional designation 1979 uc4, is a stony background asteroid and binary system from the middle regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.it was discovered 16 october 1979, by nikolai chernykh at crimean astrophysical observatory in nauchnyj, on the crimean peninsula.it was named after the italian astronomer claudio maccone.its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.23 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic.claudiomaccone comes closer to mars than to the other planets, repeatedly approaching the red planet as close as 0.47 au (70,300,000 km).in 2096 it makes a very rare approach to 65 gm.a first precovery was taken at palomar observatory in 1950, extending the body's observation arc by 29 years prior to its official discovery observation.lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.1872 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.15 magnitude (u=n.a.).an identical period with an amplitude of 0.12 magnitude, was also published by petr pravec in 2006.after the binary nature of claudiomaccone was announced (see below), follow-up observations by a group of french, swiss and italian astronomers (including claudio maccone) in 2008 and 2012, gave a period 3.1873 and 3.18701 hours with an amplitude of 0.16 and 0.12 magnitude, respectively (u=2/2+).an identical orbital period is also given by pravec.the discovery was announced in december 2005, and the moon was provisionally designated s/2003 (11264) 1.based on a secondary to primary mean-diameter ratio of larger than 0.31, the moon's diameter is estimated to be at least 1.24 kilometers.its orbit around claudiomaccone has an estimated semi-major axis of 6 kilometers.in his book the sun as a gravitational lens: proposed space missions he proposed the construction and launch of a spacecraft–antenna, called the focal space mission.outside the solar system, at a distance of 550 au, focal could have a significantly better sensitivity detecting radio signals due to the sun's magnifying gravitational lensing effect, as predicted by general relativity.the official naming citation was published on 2 september 2001 (m.p.c.43382; 54279 and *35557).in 2012, he succeed american astronomer seth shostak as chairman of the seti permanent committee at the international academy of astronautics.), stanford university, april 2016 asteroids with satellites, robert johnston, johnstonsarchive.net asteroid lightcurve database (lcdb), query form (info archived 2017-12-16 at the wayback machine) dictionary of minor planet names, google books asteroids and comets rotation curves, cdr – observatoire de genève, raoul behrend discovery circumstances: numbered minor planets (10001)-(15000) – minor planet center 11264 claudiomaccone at the jpl small-body database
11264 claudiomaccone | apoapsis | 4754260000 kilometres <tsp> 11264 claudiomaccone | temperature | 1730 kelvins
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