Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
2024 YU4
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
22 February 2025
--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: |
1.863564345 AU
| |
orbital period P: |
2.54404501 yr (= 929.212441 d)
| |
eccentricity e: |
0.72814102
| |
perihelion distance q: |
0.5066267 AU
| |
aphelion distance Q: |
3.220501987 AU
| |
inclination i: |
27.796662°
| |
argument of perihelion ω: |
100.288304°
| |
ascending node Ω: |
141.5411725°
| |
mean anomaly M: |
15.6870844°
| |
perihelion passage TP: |
2025 Mar 25.509350
| |
Epoch: |
2025 May 05
| |
data arc: |
2002-2025
(208 obs.)
| |
Earth MOID: |
0.00939183 AU
| |
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
3.518
|
orbital data, secondary:
|
semimajor axis as: |
?
| |
orbital period Ps: |
?
| |
eccentricity es: |
?
| |
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
|
absolute mag. H: |
19.04
[MPC]
| |
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
| |
effective diameter dE: |
0.69
km [*E]
| |
geometric albedo: |
(0.09
) [*A]
| |
color index U-B: |
?
| |
color index B-V: |
?
| |
taxonomic type: |
?
| |
mass m: |
?
| |
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
| |
Hill radius rH: |
100 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
|
diameter dp: |
0.69
km [*E]
| |
rotation period RPp: |
?
| |
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: |
?
| |
|
|
--
2024 YU4
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2024 Dec 25
from
Haleakala, Hawaii, USA
by
PanSTARRS 2 program.
Linked to prediscovery observations from 2002 Feb 08.
Companion discovered
2025 Feb 09
by L. A. M. Benner, et al.
using
radar
observations from Goldstone Observatory, California, USA.
Announced
2025 Feb 10 [B25b].
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--Links to ADS abstracts:
©
2025
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
22 February 2025.
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