(90075) 2002 VU94

Asteroid on an eccentric orbit September 2020 yes (90075) 2002 VU 94 #FFC2E0 NEAT Palomar Obs. 13 November 2002 (90075) 2002 VU 94 ApolloNEOPHA 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) 0 62.16 yr (22,704 days) 3.3631 AU 0.9045 AU 2.1338 AU 0.5761 3.12 yr (1,138 days) 26.512° 0.3162 ms / day 8.9155° 226.78° 30.617° 0.0301 AU11.7 LD 2.233 0.084 km2.59 km (calculated) 7.878 0.002 h7.879 0.002 hlcdb-Warner-2018a7.88 0.01 h7.90 0.01 h 0.20 (assumed)0.294 0.040 S (assumed) 15.215.3 (90075) 2002 VU 94 is an asteroid on an eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 November 2002, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. It is one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids known. Orbit and classification 2002 VU 94 is a member of the dynamical Apollo group, which are Earth-crossing asteroids. Apollo asteroids are the largest subgroup of near-Earth objects. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.9–3.4 AU once every 3 years and 1 month (1,138 days; semi-major axis of 2.13 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.58 and an inclination of 9° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery from the Digitized Sky Survey taken at the Palomar Observatory in October 1955, or 47 years prior to its official discovery observation. Close approaches With an absolute magnitude of 15.3, 2002 VU 94 is one of the brightest and largest known potentially hazardous asteroid (see PHA-list). It has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.0301 AU km on off 3, which translates into 11.7 lunar distances. On 18 May 2092, the body will make its closest near-Earth encounter at a nominal distance of 0.095 AU (37 LD). The asteroid is also Mars-crosser, crossing the orbit of the Red Planet at 1.66 AU. Physical characteristics 2002 VU 94 is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid. Rotation period In 2014 and 2017, several rotational lightcurveslightcurve-plots-Warner of 2002 VU 94 were obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian Warner at the Palmer Divide Station (U82) in California.lcdb-Warner-2018a Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 7.879 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.31 and 0.64 magnitude (U=3-).lcdb-Warner-2018a In 2017, Warner also modeled the photometric data and determined a sidereal period of 7.878512 hours, as well as a spin axis of (73.0°, −50.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β). Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, 2002 VU 94 measures 2.233 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.294, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20, and calculates a diameter of 2.59 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 15.3. Numbering and naming This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named. Notes lcdb-Warner-2018a Warner (2018) web: Observation from 2017-08-12. Rotation period 7.879 0.002 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.64 0.02 mag. Quality Code of 3-. Currently unpublished (not on ADS). Summary figures for (90075) at the LCDB lightcurve-plots-Warner Four lightcurve plots of (90075) 2002 VU 94 by B. D. Warner at CS3 (2014/2017). Plot-1, Plot-2, Plot-3 and Plot-4. Summary figures at the LCDB and CS3 website. References 30em 2017-12-22 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 90075 (2002 VU94) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2090075 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 18 January 2018 90075 (2002 VU94) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=90075 18 January 2018 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 24 February 2018 List of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/t_phas.html 18 January 2018 90075 18 January 2018 6 C. R. Nugent A. Mainzer J. Masiero J. Bauer R. M. Cutri T. Grav E. Kramer S. Sonnett R. Stevenson E. L. Wright December 2015 NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015ApJ...814..117N The Astrophysical Journal 814 2 13 2015ApJ...814..117N 10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/117 1509.02522 18 January 2018 Warner, Brian D. April 2015 Near-Earth Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at CS3-Palmer Divide Station: 2014 October–December http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015MPBu...42..115W The Minor Planet Bulletin 42 2 115–127 1052-8091 2015MPBu...42..115W 18 January 2018 Warner, Brian D. January 2015 Near-Earth Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at CS3-Palmer Divide Station: 2014 June–October http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015MPBu...42...41W The Minor Planet Bulletin 42 1 41–53 1052-8091 2015MPBu...42...41W 18 January 2018 Warner, Brian D. July 2017 Near-Earth Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at CS3-Palmer Divide Station: 2016 December thru 2017 April http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2017MPBu...44..223W The Minor Planet Bulletin 44 3 223–237 1052-8091 2017MPBu...44..223W 18 January 2018 External links Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info https://web.archive.org/web/20171216050541/http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html 16 December 2017 ) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR https://web.archive.org/web/20160729213840/http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html 29 July 2016 – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend 90075 90075 2002VU94 2090075 90075 (90075) 2002 VU 94 090075 090075 090075 20021113