2002 NY40

Near-Earth asteroid January 2020 yes 2002 NY 40 #FFC2E0 2002 NY40 Radar.jpg Radar image of 2002 NY 40 taken by the Arecibo Observatory in August 2002, revealing its contact binary shape LINEAR Lincoln Laboratory ETS 14 July 2002(first observed only) 2002 NY 40 NEOApolloPHA 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5) 0 3.01 yr (1,099 d) 3.5019 AU 0.5985 AU 2.0502 AU 0.7081 2.94 yr (1,072 d) 317.21° 0.3357 ms / day 5.8940° 145.25° 269.93° 0.0012 AU (0.4670 LD) 800 m 19.0 2002 NY 40 is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 800 m ft off 2 us in diameter. The contact binary with a bilobated, peanut-like shape was first observed on 14 July 2002 by the LINEAR automated system in New Mexico. On 18 August 2002, it passed Earth at a distance of 540,000 km.The Triangle that Skimmed Past the Earth: Asteroid 2002 NY40 11 September 2007 by Fraser Cain It was observed with adaptive optics by the Midcourse Space Experiment.Ted Stryk @tsplanets, Twitter, 23 Aug 2019 Orbit and classification It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.6–3.5 AU once every 2 years and 11 months (1,073 days; semi-major axis of 2.05 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.71 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. References 30em 2005-07-15 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2002 NY40) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3131063 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 24 August 2019 2002 NY40 Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2002+NY40 24 August 2019 External links 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 Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center APOD Aug 17, 2002 2002NY40 2002NY40 3131063 # Category:Minor planet object articles (unnumbered) # # Category:Near-Earth objects in 2002 20020714 Category:Radar-imaged asteroids