(90075) 2002 VU94

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(90075) 2002 VU94
Discovery [1]
Discovered by NEAT
Discovery site Palomar Obs.
Discovery date13 November 2002
Designations
(90075) 2002 VU94
2002 VU94
Apollo  · NEO  · PHA [1] [2]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 62.16 yr (22,704 days)
Aphelion 3.3631 AU
Perihelion 0.9045 AU
2.1338 AU
Eccentricity 0.5761
3.12 yr (1,138 days)
26.512°
0° 18m 58.32s / day
Inclination 8.9155°
226.78°
30.617°
Earth  MOID 0.0301 AU ·11.7 LD
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 2.233±0.084 km [3]
2.59 km (calculated) [4]
7.878±0.002 h [5]
7.879±0.002 h [a]
7.88±0.01 h [6]
7.90±0.01 h [7]
0.20 (assumed) [4]
0.294±0.040 [3]
S (assumed) [4]
15.2 [3]  ·15.3 [1] [4]

    (90075) 2002 VU94 (provisional designation 2002 VU94) is an asteroid on an eccentric orbit, classified as 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. [2] It is one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids known. [8]

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    Orbit and classification

    2002 VU94 is a member of the dynamical Apollo group, [1] [2] 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. [1]

    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. [2]

    Close approaches

    With an absolute magnitude of 15.3, 2002 VU94 is one of the brightest and largest known potentially hazardous asteroid (see PHA-list). [8] It has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.0301 AU (4,500,000 km), which translates into 11.7 lunar distances. [1] On 18 May 2092, the body will make its closest near-Earth encounter at a nominal distance of 0.095 AU (37 LD). [1] The asteroid is also Mars-crosser, crossing the orbit of the Red Planet at 1.66 AU.

    Physical characteristics

    2002 VU94 is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid. [4]

    Rotation period

    In 2014 and 2017, several rotational lightcurves [b] of 2002 VU94 were obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian Warner at the Palmer Divide Station ( U82 ) in California. [5] [6] [7] [a] Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 7.879 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.31 and 0.64 magnitude ( U=3- ). [4] [a]

    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). [4]

    Diameter and albedo

    According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, 2002 VU94 measures 2.233 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.294, [3] 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. [4]

    Numbering and naming

    This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. [9] As of 2018, it has not been named. [2]

    Notes

    1. 1 2 3 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
    2. ↑ Four lightcurve plots of (90075) 2002 VU94 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.

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