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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