Size and Shape of (11351) Leucus from Five Occultations

Marc W. Buie,Brian A. Keeney,Ryder Strauss, Ted E. Blank, John G. Moore,Simon B. Porter,Lawrence H. Wasserman,Robert Weryk,Harold F. Levison,Catherine B. Olkin,Rodrigo Leiva, Jerry E. Bardecker,Michael E. Brown, Lilah B Brown,Michael Collins, Hugh M. Davidson,David W. Dunham, Joan B. Dunham, John A. Eaccarino,Tiffany J. Finley, Lindsay Fuller,Maria L. Garcia, Tony George,Kai Getrost, T. Gialluca Megan, Rima M. Givot, David Gupton,William H. Hanna,Carl Hergenrother, Yamir Hernandez, Bryan Hill,P. C. Hinton,Timothy R. Holt,Robert R. Howell, Jack Lee Jewell,Roxanne L. Kamin,Joshua A. Kammer,Theodore Kareta, Gregory J. Kayl,John Keller, David A. Kenyon, Scott R. Kester, J. N. Kidd,Tod R. Lauer, Cecilia W. S. Leung, Zoey R. Lorusso, Christopher B. Lundgren,L. O. Magana, P. D. Maley,Franck Marchis, Robert L. Marcialis, Andrew E. McCandless,Delsie Joy McCrystal, A. M. McGraw,Kelly E. Miller,Beatrice E. A. Mueller,John Noonan,Aart M. Olsen, Alexander R. Patton,Daniel O’Conner Peluso, James G. Rigby,Alex D. Rolfsmeier,Julien Salmon,Joseph I. Samaniego, R. P. Sawyer, David M. Schulz,Michael F. Skrutskie,Rose J. C. Smith,John R. Spencer,Alessondra Springmann, Dale R. Stanbridge, Timothy J Stoffel,Peter Tamblyn, Bryan Tobias,Anne J. Verbiscer,Michael P. von Schalscha,Holly Werts,Qicheng Zhang

The planetary science journal(2021)

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We present observations of five stellar occultations for (11351) Leucus and reports from two efforts on (21900) Orus. Both objects are prime mission candidate targets for the Lucy Discovery mission. Combined results for Leucus indicate a very dark surface with p ( V ) = 0.037 +/- 0.001, which is derived from the average of the multichord occultations. Our estimate of the triaxial ellipsoidal shape is for axial diameters of 63.8 x 36.6 x 29.6 km assuming that the spin pole is normal to the line of sight. The actual shape of the object is only roughly elliptical in profile at each epoch. Significant topography is seen with horizontal scales up to 30 km and vertical scales up to 5 km. The most significant feature is a large depression on the southern end of the object as seen from a terrestrial viewpoint. For this work we developed a method to correct for differential refraction, accounting for the difference in color between the target object and the reference stars for astrometry derived from ground-based images.
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