{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox planet | minorplanet = yes | name = 3563 Canterbury | background = #D6D6D6 | image = | image_size = | caption = | discovery_ref = <ref name="jpldata" /> | discovered = 23 March 1985 | discoverer = A. Gilmore<br />P. Kilmartin | discovery_site = Mount John University Obs. | mpc_name = (3563) Canterbury | alt_names = 1985 FE{{·}}{{mp|1978 VL|6}} | pronounced = | named_after = Canterbury Province<br />{{small|(province of New Zealand )}}<ref name="springer" /> | mp_category = main-belt{{·}}{{small|(middle)}}<ref name="lcdb" /><br />Dora<ref name="Broz-2013" /> | orbit_ref = <ref name="jpldata" /> | epoch = 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | uncertainty = 0 | observation_arc = 38.40 yr (14,024 days) | aphelion = 3.2954 AU | perihelion = 2.2853 AU | semimajor = 2.7904 AU | eccentricity = 0.1810 | period = 4.66 yr (1,703 days) | mean_anomaly = 283.52° | mean_motion = {{Deg2DMS|0.2115|sup=ms}} / day | inclination = 6.9555° | asc_node = 267.78° | arg_peri = 346.06° | dimensions = 13.72 km {{small|(calculated)}}<ref name="lcdb" /><br />{{val|15.26|3.43}} km<ref name="Nugent-2015" /><br />{{val|16.924|0.125}} km<ref name="WISE" /><ref name="Masiero-2011" /><br />{{val|21.08|8.45}} km<ref name="Masiero-2012" /> | rotation = {{val|15.553|0.0118}} h<ref name="Waszczak-2015" /> | albedo = {{val|0.040|0.055}}<ref name="Masiero-2012" /><br />{{val|0.050|0.013}}<ref name="WISE" /><ref name="Masiero-2011" /><br />0.057 {{small|(assumed)}}<ref name="lcdb" /><br />{{val|0.06|0.04}}<ref name="Nugent-2015" /> | spectral_type = SMASS = Ch<ref name="jpldata" />{{·}}C<ref name="lcdb" /><ref name="Veres-2015" /> | abs_magnitude = 12.4<ref name="WISE" />{{·}}12.50<ref name="Masiero-2012" />{{·}}{{val|12.591|0.002}} {{small|(R)}}<ref name="Waszczak-2015" />{{·}}12.60<ref name="Nugent-2015" />{{·}}12.7<ref name="jpldata" />{{·}}{{val|12.79|0.36}}<ref name="Veres-2015" /><br />13.04<ref name="lcdb" /> }}
'''3563 Canterbury''', provisional designation {{mp|1985 FE}}, is a dark Dorian asteroid from the middle regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 23 March 1985, by astronomer couple Alan Gilmore and Pamela Kilmartin at Mount John University Observatory near Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.<ref name="MPC-Canterbury" /> The asteroid was named after New Zealand's Canterbury Province.<ref name="springer" />
== Classification and orbit ==
=== Dora family ===
''Canterbury'' is a member of the Dora family, a large asteroid family of more than 1,200 carbonaceous asteroids, named after 668 Dora. It is also known as the "Zhongolovich family", named after its presumably largest member 1734 Zhongolovich. The Dora family may also contain a subfamily.<ref name="Broz-2013" /><ref name="Nesvorny-2014" />{{rp|13,23}}
=== Orbit and observation arc ===
''Canterbury'' orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.3–3.3 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,703 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic.<ref name="jpldata" /> The asteroid was first identified as {{mp|1978 VL|6}} at Palomar Observatory, extending the body's observation arc by 7 years prior to its official discovery observation.<ref name="MPC-Canterbury" />
== Physical characteristics ==
''Canterbury'' has been characterized as a dark C-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric survey.<ref name="Veres-2015" /> It is also classified as a hydrated Ch-subtype in the SMASS taxonomy.<ref name="jpldata" />
=== Rotation period ===
In October 2010, a rotational lightcurve of ''Canterbury'' was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 15.553 hours with a brightness variation of 0.61 magnitude ({{small|U=2}}).<ref name="Waszczak-2015" />
=== Diameter and albedo ===
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, ''Canterbury'' measures between 15.26 and 21.08 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.040 and 0.060.<ref name="Nugent-2015" /><ref name="WISE" /><ref name="Masiero-2011" /><ref name="Masiero-2012" /> The ''Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link'' assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 13.72 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.04.<ref name="lcdb" />
== Naming ==
This minor planet was named after New Zealand's Canterbury Province, on the eastern side of the South Island. It is also named for the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.<ref name="springer" /> The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 May 1991 ({{small|M.P.C. 18306}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
== References == {{reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name="jpldata">{{cite web |type = 2017-03-29 last obs. |title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3563 Canterbury (1985 FE) |url = https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2003563 |publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date = 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="springer">{{cite book |last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. |title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg |page = 299 |date = 2007 |isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3 |doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3562 |chapter = (3563) Canterbury }}</ref>
<ref name="MPC-Canterbury">{{cite web |title = 3563 Canterbury (1985 FE) |work = Minor Planet Center |url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=3563 |access-date = 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web |title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive |work = Minor Planet Center |url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html |access-date = 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="Masiero-2011">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = Joseph R. |last1 = Masiero |first2 = A. K. |last2 = Mainzer |first3 = T. |last3 = Grav |first4 = J. M. |last4 = Bauer |first5 = R. M. |last5 = Cutri |first6 = J. |last6 = Dailey |first7 = P. R. M. |last7 = Eisenhardt |first8 = R. S. |last8 = McMillan |first9 = T. B. |last9 = Spahr |first10 = M. F. |last10 = Skrutskie |first11 = D. |last11 = Tholen |first12 = R. G. |last12 = Walker |first13 = E. L. |last13 = Wright |first14 = E. |last14 = DeBaun |first15 = D. |last15 = Elsbury |first16 = T. IV |last16 = Gautier |first17 = S. |last17 = Gomillion |first18 = A. |last18 = Wilkins |date = November 2011 |title = Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE. I. Preliminary Albedos and Diameters |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2011ApJ...741...68M |journal = The Astrophysical Journal |volume = 741 |issue = 2 |page = 20 |bibcode = 2011ApJ...741...68M |doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/68 |arxiv = 1109.4096 |access-date= 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="Broz-2013">{{cite journal |first1 = M. |last1 = Broz |first2 = A. |last2 = Morbidelli |first3 = W. F. |last3 = Bottke |first4 = J. |last4 = Rozehnal |first5 = D. |last5 = Vokrouhlický |first6 = D. |last6 = Nesvorný |date = March 2013 |title = Constraining the cometary flux through the asteroid belt during the late heavy bombardment |journal = Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume = 551 |page = 16 |bibcode = 2013A&A...551A.117B |doi = 10.1051/0004-6361/201219296 |arxiv = 1301.6221}}</ref>
<ref name="Nesvorny-2014">{{cite book |first1 = D. |last1 = Nesvorný |first2 = M. |last2 = Broz |first3 = V. |last3 = Carruba |date = December 2014 |chapter = Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families |title = Asteroids IV |pages = 297–321 |bibcode = 2015aste.book..297N |doi = 10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816532131-ch016 |arxiv = 1502.01628 |isbn = 978-0-8165-3213-1}}</ref>
<ref name="lcdb">{{cite LCDB|number = 3563 |access-date = 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="WISE">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = A. |last1 = Mainzer |first2 = T. |last2 = Grav |first3 = J. |last3 = Masiero |first4 = E. |last4 = Hand |first5 = J. |last5 = Bauer |first6 = D. |last6 = Tholen |first7 = R. S. |last7 = McMillan |first8 = T. |last8 = Spahr |first9 = R. M. |last9 = Cutri |first10 = E. |last10 = Wright |first11 = J. |last11 = Watkins |first12 = W. |last12 = Mo |first13 = C. |last13 = Maleszewski |date = November 2011 |title = NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results |journal = The Astrophysical Journal |volume = 741 |issue = 2 |page = 25 |bibcode = 2011ApJ...741...90M |doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/90 |arxiv = 1109.6407}}</ref>
<ref name="Masiero-2012">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = Joseph R. |last1 = Masiero |first2 = A. K. |last2 = Mainzer |first3 = T. |last3 = Grav |first4 = J. M. |last4 = Bauer |first5 = R. M. |last5 = Cutri |first6 = C. |last6 = Nugent |first7 = M. S. |last7 = Cabrera |date = November 2012 |title = Preliminary Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE 3-Band Cryogenic and Post-cryogenic Observations of Main Belt Asteroids |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2012ApJ...759L...8M |journal = The Astrophysical Journal Letters |volume = 759 |issue = 1 |page = 5 |bibcode = 2012ApJ...759L...8M |doi = 10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L8 |arxiv = 1209.5794 |access-date= 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="Nugent-2015">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = C. R. |last1 = Nugent |first2 = A. |last2 = Mainzer |first3 = J. |last3 = Masiero |first4 = J. |last4 = Bauer |first5 = R. M. |last5 = Cutri |first6 = T. |last6 = Grav |first7 = E. |last7 = Kramer |first8 = S. |last8 = Sonnett |first9 = R. |last9 = Stevenson |first10 = E. L. |last10 = Wright |date = December 2015 |title = NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015ApJ...814..117N |journal = The Astrophysical Journal |volume = 814 |issue = 2 |page = 13 |bibcode = 2015ApJ...814..117N |doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/117 |arxiv = 1509.02522 |access-date= 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="Waszczak-2015">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = Adam |last1 = Waszczak |first2 = Chan-Kao |last2 = Chang |first3 = Eran O. |last3 = Ofek |first4 = Russ |last4 = Laher |first5 = Frank |last5 = Masci |first6 = David |last6 = Levitan |first7 = Jason |last7 = Surace |first8 = Yu-Chi |last8 = Cheng |first9 = Wing-Huen |last9 = Ip |first10 = Daisuke |last10 = Kinoshita |first11 = George |last11 = Helou |first12 = Thomas A. |last12 = Prince |first13 = Shrinivas |last13 = Kulkarni |date = September 2015 |title = Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015AJ....150...75W |journal = The Astronomical Journal |volume = 150 |issue = 3 |page = 35 |bibcode = 2015AJ....150...75W |doi = 10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/75 |arxiv = 1504.04041 |access-date= 7 July 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="Veres-2015">{{cite journal |display-authors = 6 |first1 = Peter |last1 = Veres |first2 = Robert |last2 = Jedicke |first3 = Alan |last3 = Fitzsimmons |first4 = Larry |last4 = Denneau |first5 = Mikael |last5 = Granvik |first6 = Bryce |last6 = Bolin |first7 = Serge |last7 = Chastel |first8 = Richard J. |last8 = Wainscoat |first9 = William S. |last9 = Burgett |first10 = Kenneth C. |last10 = Chambers |first11 = Heather |last11 = Flewelling |first12 = Nick |last12 = Kaiser |first13 = Eugen A. |last13 = Magnier |first14 = Jeff S. |last14 = Morgan |first15 = Paul A. |last15 = Price |first16 = John L. |last16 = Tonry |first17 = Christopher |last17 = Waters |date = November 2015 |title = Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015Icar..261...34V |journal = Icarus |volume = 261 |pages = 34–47 |bibcode = 2015Icar..261...34V |doi = 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007 |arxiv = 1506.00762 |access-date= 7 July 2017}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090310125951/http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/people/kilmartin.shtml Pam Kilmartin], University of Canterbury * [https://web.archive.org/web/20161014015518/http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/people/gilmore.shtml Alan Gilmore], University of Canterbury * [http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/lcdbsummaryquery.php Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)], query form ([http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216050541/http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html |date=16 December 2017 }}) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg Dictionary of Minor Planet Names], Google books * [http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR] – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend * [https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000)] – Minor Planet Center * {{AstDys|3563}} * {{JPL small body}}
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