Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(51356)
2000 RY76
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
20 September 2014
--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:
Mars crossing asteroid, Hungaria
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
1.811797578 AU
|
orbital period P: |
2.438780504 yr (= 890.7645791 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.11163368
|
perihelion distance q: |
1.60953994 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.014055215 AU
|
inclination i: |
22.2100003°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
36.189020°
|
ascending node Ω: |
331.208187°
|
mean anomaly M: |
248.937572°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2015 Feb 21.80688
|
Epoch: |
2014 May 23
|
data arc: |
1975-2012
(669 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.622486 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.958
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
13
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 8.0 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.032 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
2.585
± 0.002
d [W13f]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
15
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
3.3
km [*E]
|
geometric albedo: |
(0.16
) [*A]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
410 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
3.23
km [*E]
|
rotation period RPp: |
2.5572
± 0.0001
h [W13f]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.09
± 0.01
[W13f]
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
0.68
km [*E]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
>0.21
± 0.02
[W13f]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
<3.4
± 0.2
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(51356) 2000 RY76
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2000 Sep 08
from
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
by
LINEAR.
Alternate designation(s):
1995 UA8.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1975 Jul 07.
Permanent number assigned 2002 Nov 20.
Companion discovered
2012 Oct 08
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2013 Mar .
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©
2013, 2014
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
20 September 2014.
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