Warner Brian D, Stephens Robert D
Palmer Divide Observatory, 17995 Bakers Farm Rd., Colorado Springs, CO 80908.
Center for Solar System Studies, Landers, CA USA.
Minor Planet Bull. 2013 Jul-Sep;40(3):175-176.
Analysis of CCD photometric observations of the Hungaria asteroid (27568) 2000 PT6 shows that the asteroid is a binary system. The primary has period of 3.4885 ± 0.0002 h. No mutual events were observed, i.e., occultations or eclipses. However, there is a strong secondary period with a bimodal lightcurve of 16.356 ± 0.003 h. This secondary lightcurve indicates a slightly elongated satellite of somewhat irregular shape that may be tidally-locked to its orbital period. The discovery of the satellite led to a revision of previous results from 2011.
对匈牙利小行星（27568）2000 PT6的电荷耦合器件（CCD）光度观测分析表明，该小行星是一个双星系统。主星的周期为3.4885±0.0002小时。未观测到相互掩食事件，即掩星或食。然而，存在一个强烈的次周期，其双峰光变曲线周期为16.356±0.003小时。该次光变曲线表明存在一颗形状略呈拉长状且有些不规则的卫星，它可能被潮汐锁定在其轨道周期上。这颗卫星的发现导致对2011年以前的结果进行了修正。
