(636872) 2014 YX49

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(636872) 2014 YX49
Animation of 2014 YX49 relative to Sun and Uranus 1600-2500.gif
Animation of 2014 YX49 relative to Sun and Uranus 1600-2500
  2014 YX49 ·  Uranus ·  Sun
Discovery [1]
Discovered by Mount Lemmon Survey
Discovery site Mount Lemmon Obs.
Discovery dateNovember 21, 2006
Designations
2014 YX49
Uranus trojan centaur [2] [3]  · distant [1]
Orbital characteristics [2]
Epoch February 16, 2017 (JD 2457800.5)
Uncertainty parameter 1
Observation arc 4876 days (13.35 yr)
Aphelion 24.4207  AU (3.65328  Tm)
Perihelion 13.8401 AU (2.07045 Tm)
19.1304 AU (2.86187 Tm)
Eccentricity 0.276539
83.67 yr (30562 d)
75.587°
Inclination 25.55097°
91.44425°
280.584°
Earth  MOID 12.9424 AU (1.93616 Tm)
Jupiter  MOID 9.47006 AU (1.416701 Tm)
Physical characteristics
77  km (est. at 0.09) [3]
21.6
8.8

    (636872) 2014 YX49 (provisional designation 2014 YX49) is a centaur and Uranus co-orbital, approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter. Discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on November 21, 2006, it is the second known centaur on a tadpole orbit with Uranus, and the fourth Uranus co-orbital discovered after 83982 Crantor, (687170) 2011 QF99 and (472651) 2015 DB216 . [4]

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    Description

    2014 YX49 is a temporary L4 trojan of Uranus, the second one (2011 QF99 was identified first) to be confirmed as currently trapped in such a resonant state. This object may have remained as a L4 Uranian Trojan for about 60,000 years and it can continue that way for another 80,000 years. Numerical integrations suggest that it may stay within Uranus's co-orbital zone for nearly one million years. [4]

    Besides being a L4 Uranian trojan, 2014 YX49 is trapped in the 7:20 mean motion resonance with Saturn as well; therefore, this minor body is currently subjected to a three-body resonance. [4] The other known Uranian trojan, 2011 QF99, is also in this resonant configuration.

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    References

    1. 1 2 "2014 YX49 - Minor Planet Center". Minor Planet Center. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
    2. 1 2 "JPL Small Body Database Browser". JPL (2015-01-28 last obs.). NASA . Retrieved January 20, 2017.
    3. 1 2 Johnston, Wm. Robert (August 18, 2020). "List of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects". Johnston's Archive. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
    4. 1 2 3 de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (May 15, 2017). "Asteroid 2014 YX49: a large transient Trojan of Uranus". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467 (2): 1561–1568. arXiv: 1701.05541 . Bibcode:2017MNRAS.467.1561D. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx197 .
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