(38984) 2000 UZ4

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(38984) 2000 UZ4
Discovery [1]
Discovered by LINEAR
Discovery site Lincoln Lab's ETS
Discovery date24 October 2000
Designations
(38984) 2000 UZ4
2000 UZ4
main-belt [1]  ·(outer) [2] [3]
Zhongguo [4]  · 2:1 res [5]
Orbital characteristics [2]
Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 20.39 yr (7,447 d)
Aphelion 4.1195 AU
Perihelion 2.5141 AU
3.3168 AU
Eccentricity 0.2420
6.04 yr (2,206 d)
312.38°
0° 9m 47.52s / day
Inclination 0.4882°
59.710°
357.34°
Physical characteristics
4.87  km (calculated) [3]
19.20±0.390  h [6]
0.057(assumed) [3]
C [3] [7]
14.6 [2]
14.840±0.190(R) [6]
15.19±0.14 [7]
15.29 [3]

    (38984) 2000 UZ4 (provisional designation 2000 UZ4) is carbonaceous Zhongguo asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 24 October 2000, by astronomers with Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States. [1] The likely elongated C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 19.20 hours. [3]

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    Orbit and classification

    2000 UZ4 is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population, and a member of the small group of Zhongguo asteroids, [4] located in the Hecuba gap and locked in a 2:1 mean-motion resonance with the gas giant Jupiter. Contrary to the nearby unstable Griqua group, the orbits of the Zhongguos are stable over half a billion years. [4] [5]

    It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.5–4.1  AU once every 6.04 years (2,206 days; semi-major axis of 3.32 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.24 and an inclination of 0° with respect to the ecliptic. [2] The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken by Spacewatch in February 1996, more than 4 years prior to its official discovery observation at Socorro. [1]

    Physical characteristics

    2000 UZ4 has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS ' large-scale survey. [3]

    Rotation period

    In January 2014, a rotational lightcurve of this asteroid was obtained from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 19.20 hours with a high brightness amplitude of 0.70 magnitude, indicative of an elongated shape ( U=2 ). [6]

    Diameter and albedo

    The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 4.87 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 15.29. [3]

    Numbering and naming

    This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002, after its orbit had sufficiently been secured ( M.P.C. 45198). [8] As of 2018, it has not been named. [1]

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