Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(68063)
2000 YJ66
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
30 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, Amor
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
2.3328332051 AU
|
orbital period P: |
3.563146959 yr (= 1301.4394266 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.458078287
|
perihelion distance q: |
1.264212966 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
3.401453444 AU
|
inclination i: |
5.7216703°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
50.282324°
|
ascending node Ω: |
308.86487°
|
mean anomaly M: |
335.3823629°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2021 Sep 27.9954541
|
Epoch: |
2021 Jul 01
|
data arc: |
1989-2021
(1563 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.272307 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.415
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
3.8
km
[*E]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 3.3 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.017 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
0.6538
± 0.0008
d [W15a]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
15.43
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
2.30
± 0.07
km [N15e]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.211
± 0.037
[N15e]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
230 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
2.30
± 0.07
km [N15e]
|
rotation period RPp: |
2.1102
± 0.0005
h [W15a]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
?
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
?
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
?
|
rotation period RPs: |
15.69
± 0.02
h [W15a]
|
|
|
--
(68063) 2000 YJ66
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2000 Dec 30
from
Kitt Peak Observatory, Arizona, USA
by
C. A. Trujillo, J. X. Luu, and D. C. Jewitt.
Alternate designation(s):
1964 VG.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 1964.
Permanent number assigned 2003 Sep 10.
Companion discovered
-
by B. D. Warner, R. D. Stephens, and A. W. Harris
using
lightcurve
observations.
Announced
2014 Dec [W15a].
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by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
30 April 2022.
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