Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(226514)
2003 UX34
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
27 May 2019
--Orbital and physical data--
(See this page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, see this link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
dynamical type, primary:
NEA, Apollo
(PHA)
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
1.0951021658 AU
|
orbital period P: |
1.145992979 yr (= 418.5818409 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.615858212
|
perihelion distance q: |
0.420674504 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
1.7695298273 AU
|
inclination i: |
2.5646216°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
218.48756°
|
ascending node Ω: |
4.37603°
|
mean anomaly M: |
353.1449962°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2017 Feb 23.9705003
|
Epoch: |
2017 Feb 16
|
data arc: |
1996-2017
(209 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.0151735 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
5.474
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
0.46
km
[*E]
|
orbital period Ps: |
0.625
d [W18f]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
20.1
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
0.29
km [*D]
|
geometric albedo: |
[]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
9 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
0.28
km [W19c]
|
rotation period RPp: |
?
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
0.1
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.36
[W19c]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
2.2
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(226514) 2003 UX34
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2003 Oct 26
from
Kitt Peak Observatory, Arizona, USA
by
Spacewatch.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1996 Sep 17.
Permanent number assigned 2009 Dec 02.
Companion discovered
2017 Jan 05
using
radar
observations from Goldstone Observatory, California, USA; Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
Announced
2017 Jan 05 [B17b].
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©
2017, 2019
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
27 May 2019.
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