PHOTOMETRIC-OBSERVATIONS OF 125 ASTEROIDS

We present observations of 125 asteroids taken by traditional photoele ctric photometry as well as with CCD imaging systems, from 1985 to the end of 1993,just 2 months before the untimely death of the first auth or. From these observations, we derive rotation periods for 82 asteroi ds. Of these, 72 are for asteroids with no previously reported rotatio n period, and one is a significant revision of a period previously rep orted. We report V magnitudes for almost all of the objects and five-c olor observations (a subset of the eight-color asteroid system) for 35 of the asteroids. Most of the objects observed are small main-belt as teroids or near-Earth asteroids; thus this data set is a substantial a ddition to the known rotation periods and amplitudes of variations of those classes of asteroids. (C) 1997 Academic Press.