Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(612098) 1999 RM45
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
10 April 2022
--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: |
1.681249259 AU
|
orbital period P: |
2.179958163 yr (= 796.2447572 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.64414103
|
perihelion distance q: |
0.59828763 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.764210883 AU
|
inclination i: |
10.888953°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
88.763528°
|
ascending node Ω: |
162.844309°
|
mean anomaly M: |
213.380034°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2021 Apr 20.292720
|
Epoch: |
2020 May 31
|
data arc: |
1999-2021
(168 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.00273761 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.949
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
0.29
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 3.5 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.037 [*D] |
orbital period Ps: |
0.6852
± 0.0005
d [P21a]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
19.4
[MPC]
19.27 ± 0.13 [P21a]
|
slope parameter G: |
0.24 [P21a]
|
effective diameter dE: |
0.181
± 0.057/0.029
km [N18a]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.781
± 0.325/0.342
[N18a]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
8 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
0.165
± 0.052/0.027
km [*D]
|
axial ratios a/b, b/c: | 1.3, ? [P21a] |
rotation period RPp: |
3.0697
± 0.0006
h [P21a]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
0.07
[P21a]
|
amplitude in mag., mutual events ΔM: | 0.2 [P21a] |
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
0.074
± 0.024/0.013
km [*D]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.45
± 0.02
[P21a]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
1.73
± 0.097
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(612098) 1999 RM45
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
1999 Sep 14
from
Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico, USA
by
LINEAR Program. Permanent number assigned 28 Mar 2022.
Companion discovered
2020
by P. Pravec, K. Hornoch, P. Farka, and P. Kusnirak
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2021 Feb 13 [P21a].
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2021, 2022
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
10 April 2022.
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