Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
2020 BX12
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
7 February 2020
--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: |
1.5997 AU
|
orbital period P: |
2.0233 yr (= 739 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.52686
|
perihelion distance q: |
0.756893 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.4426 AU
|
inclination i: |
40.078°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
70.52°
|
ascending node Ω: |
132.9045°
|
mean anomaly M: |
336.002°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2020 Mar 21.27
|
Epoch: |
2020 Feb 01
|
data arc: |
2020 Jan-2020 Feb
(126 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.00201896 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.974
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
>0.36
km
[V20a]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 4.4 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.036 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
1.96
± 0.08
d [V20a]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
0
[MPC]
20.59 ± 0.3 [JPL]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
0.18
km [V20a]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.3
[V20a]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
10 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
>0.165
km [V20a]
|
rotation period RPp: |
<2.8
h [V20a]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
>0.07
km [V20a]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.42
[*D]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
1.9
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
<49
h [V20a]
|
|
|
--
2020 BX12
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2020 Jan 27
from
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA
by
ATLAS-MLO.
Companion discovered
2020 Feb 04
by A. K. Virkki, L. F. Zambrano-Marin, S. E. Marshall, D. C. Hickson, and P. A. Taylor
using
radar
observations from Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
Announced
2020 Feb 07 [V20a].
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©
2020
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
7 February 2020.
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