Ables

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5175 Ables

5175 Ables, provisional designation 1988 VS₄, is a bright, stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S. Palomar Observatory, California, on 4 November 1988.

The bright E-type asteroid is a member of the Hungaria family, which form the innermost dense concentration of asteroids in the Solar System. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.0 AU once every 2 years and 9 months (1,008 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.04 and is tilted by 17 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic.

Between 2010 and 2014, several photometric light-curve analysis at the U.S. Palmer Divide Station in Colorado, have given a well-defined rotation period of 2.798 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.10 in magnitude. Based on the surveys carried out by the U.S. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has an albedo of 0.29 and 0.51, with a corresponding diameter of 5.7 and 4.3 kilometers, respectively, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an albedo of 0.30 and calculates a diameter of 5.3 kilometers.

Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance

The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health funds the Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) program, a state-based surveillance program of laboratory-reported adult blood lead levels. In 2009, the ABLES program updated its case definition for an Elevated Blood Lead Level to a blood lead concentration equal or greater than 10 micrograms per deciliter (10 µg/dL). This chart shows CDC/NIOSH/ABLES Elevated blood lead level case definition in perspective

The public health objective of the ABLES program is identical to the Occupational Safety and Health objective 7 in Healthy People 2020, which is to reduce the rate of adults (age 16 or older) who have BLLs ≥ 10 µg/dL. The ABLES program aims to accomplish this objective by providing guidance, technical support, and funding to build state capacity to initiate or improve adult blood lead surveillance programs which can accurately measure trends in adult BLLs and which can effectively target interventions to prevent lead exposures.