Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discovery Ref: | [1] [2] |
Discoverer: | NEAT |
Discovered: | 18 September 2001 |
Discovery Site: | Palomar Obs. |
Epoch: | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
Observation Arc: | 22318 days (61.10 yr) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Aphelion: | 1.348abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Perihelion: | 0.77471AU |
Semimajor: | 1.0613AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.27006 |
Period: | 1.09 yr (399.37 d) |
Inclination: | 21.900° |
Asc Node: | 202.86° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Mean Anomaly: | 239.06° |
Arg Peri: | 329.30° |
Moid: | 0.197987AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 3.64009AU |
Satellites: | 1 |
Mean Diameter: | 1km (01miles)[3] |
Mass: | 109 mt |
Density: | 1.8 g/cm3 |
Surface Grav: | 0.02565 mm/s2[4] |
Escape Velocity: | 0.05116 mm/s |
Rotation: | 2.4004abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Sidereal Day: | 2.40035±0.00005 hours[5] |
Albedo: | 0.16 |
Single Temperature: | 230-303 K (-43-30°C) |
Abs Magnitude: | 17.6 |
(provisional designation ) is a sub-kilometer asteroid and binary system, classified as near-Earth object of Apollo group discovered by NEAT at Palomar Observatory on 18 September 2001. It measures approximately 960 meters in diameter, while its 2001-discovered minor-planet moon has an estimated diameter of 200 meters based on a secondary to primary size ratio of 0.28.
Although is classified as a near-Earth object, it does not pose any threats. It has never, nor will it ever in the next century, come closer than 0.1abbr=onNaNabbr=on from Earth or Venus. However, the asteroid would make a good target for a spacecraft flyby, as a flyby to would only require a delta-v of 5.4 km/s.[6]
has one minor-planet moon, . It was discovered from lightcurve observations made by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec and collaborators. This moon is approximately 200m (700feet) in diameter. Its semi-major axis is 1.6km (01miles) and its orbital period is 16.4 hours.