Vogtia is a member of the
Hilda family, a large group of asteroids in an
orbital resonance with the gas giant Jupiter, and thought to have originated from the
Kuiper belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.5–4.5
AU once every 8.01 years (2,925 days). Its orbit has an
eccentricity of 0.12 and an
inclination of 4
° with respect to the
ecliptic. Its
observation arc begins at Heidelberg, 15 days after its official discovery observation, with no
precoveries taken, and no prior identifications made. In the 1990s, a rotational
light-curve of
Vogtia was obtained during a survey of Hilda asteroids at Swedish, German and Italian observatories. It gave a well-defined
rotation period of 12.95 hours with a brightness variation of 0.33
magnitude (). In October 2016, American astronomer
Brian D. Warner obtained another light-curve at his Palmer Divide Station/CS3 in Colorado, which gave a period of 12.898 hours and an identical amplitude of 0.33 magnitude (). In the
Tholen taxonomy,
Vogtia is classified as a rare
XFU-type, while it is also described as a
C/
P-type asteroid. According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRAS, the Japanese
Akari satellite, and NASA's
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent
NEOWISE mission,
Vogtia measures between 47.87 and 52.86 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has a low
albedo between 0.043 and 0.051. The
Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0425 and a diameter of 47.79 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.65. This
minor planet was named for
Heinrich Vogt (1890–1968), German astronomer at
University of Heidelberg. He discovered the main-belt asteroid
735 Marghanna in 1912, and was a known member of the Nazi paramilitary
Sturmabteilung. == References ==