| Minorplanet: | yes |
| 1428 Mombasa | |
| Background: |
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| Discovered: | 5 July 1937 |
| Mpc Name: | (1428) Mombasa |
| Alt Names: | 1937 NO1933 WO 1949 FA1957 YZ |
| Epoch: | 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
| Observation Arc: | 82.74 yr (30,219 days) |
| Perihelion: | 2.4154 AU |
| Semimajor: | 2.8096 AU |
| Eccentricity: | 0.1403 |
| Period: | 4.71 yr (1,720 days) |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Inclination: | 17.305° |
| Asc Node: | 115.72° |
| Arg Peri: | 252.61° |
| Dimensions: | km km km km 56.83 km km km km |
| Rotation: | h h h |
| Albedo: | 0.0415 |
| Abs Magnitude: | 10.2010.2710.310.9 |
1428 Mombasa, provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 56 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 5 July 1937, by English-born South African astronomer Cyril Jackson at Johannesburg Observatory, South Africa, and later named after Mombasa, Kenya.
Mombasa orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.4–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,720 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 17° with respect to the ecliptic. Mombasa was first identified as at Lowell Observatory, extending the body's observation arc by 4 years prior to its official discovery at Johannesburg.
American astronomer Robert Stephens obtained a rotational lightcurve of Mombasa in June 2012. Light-curve analysis gave a rotation period of 16.67 hours with a brightness variation of 0.16 magnitude . Previous lightcurves were obtained by French amateur astronomer René Roy in February 2006 (17.6 hours, Δ0.15 mag;), as well as by Scot Hawkins and Richard Ditteon at Oakley Observatory in May 2007 (17.12 hours, Δ0.25 mag;).
On the SMASS taxonomic scheme, Mombasa is a Xc-type, an intermediate between the carbonaceous C and X-type, while it is also described as a darker 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, Mombasa measures between 52.46 and 62.45 kilometers in diameter, ignoring a preliminary result of 127 km, and its surface has an albedo of 0.025 and 0.06. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0415 and a diameter of 56.83 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 10.3.
This minor planet was named after Mombasa, chief-port and second largest city of Kenya on the coast of East Africa. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 .