767 Bondia

767 Bondia ("prov. designation:" "or" ) is a Themis asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 23 September 1913, by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf at his observatory in Winchester, Massachusetts. The B-type asteroid has a rotation period of 8.3 hours. It was named after William Cranch Bond (1789–1859) and his son George Phillips Bond (1825–1865), both American astronomers and directors of the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Orbit and classification.
"Bondia" is a core member the Themis family (), a very large family of carbonaceous asteroids, named after 24 Themis. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.7 AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,015 days; semi-major axis of 3.12 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic.
The Themistian asteroid was first observed as () at Heidelberg Observatory on 26 September 1902. The body's observation arc begins at Bergedorf Observatory in September 1915, or two years after its official discovery observation by Metcalf at Winchester Observatory.
Naming.
This minor planet was named after American astronomers William Cranch Bond (1789–1859) and his son George Phillips Bond (1825–1865), both directors of the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Former co-discovered and pioneered the use of photographic plates in astronomy. The latter is best known for his 1848 co-discovery of Hyperion, a moon of Saturn. He also discovered Saturn's faint C Ring, also known as Crepe Ring. The was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). The lunar craters "W. Bond" and "G. Bond" were named in honor of the two American astronomers. In addition, Martian crater "Bond" was named after George Phillips.
Physical characteristics.
In the Bus–Binzel SMASS classification, "Bondia" is a B-type asteroid, a brighter variant of the common carbonaceous C-type asteroid.
Rotation period.
In October 2018, a rotational lightcurve of "Bondia" was obtained from photometric observations by Mexican astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory in San Pedro Mártir (OAN-SPM). Lightcurve analysis gave a well defined rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of magnitude () and supersedes a previous observation by Szabó from 2016, who determined a period of at least hours and a low amplitude ().
Diameter and albedo.
According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), "Bondia" measures and kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between and , respectively. The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" derives an albedo of 0.0857 and a diameter of 41.40 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.2. Alternative mean-diameter measurements published by the WISE team include (), (), () and () with corresponding albedos of (), (), () and ().