2013 ND15

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2013 ND15
Discovery
Discovered by Pan-STARRS
Discovery date13 July 2013
Designations
2013 ND15
Orbital characteristics [2] [3] [4]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD  2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 7
Aphelion 1.1660  AU (174.43  Gm)
Perihelion 0.28100 AU (42.037 Gm)
0.72351 AU (108.236 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.61162
0.62  yr (224.8  d)
198.82°
1.6015°/day
Inclination 4.7962°
95.841°
19.697°
Earth  MOID 0.00751978 AU (1,124,943 km)
Jupiter  MOID 3.95146 AU (591.130 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Dimensions40–100 m [a] [5]
24.1 [2]

    2013 ND15 (also written 2013 ND15) is an asteroid that is a temporary trojan of Venus, the first known Venus trojan. [6]

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    Discovery, orbit and physical properties

    2013 ND15 was discovered on 13 July 2013 by N. Primak, A. Schultz, T. Goggia and K. Chambers, observing for the Pan-STARRS project. As of September 2014, it has been observed 21 times with a data-arc span of 26 days. It is an Aten asteroid and its semi-major axis (0.7235 AU) is very similar to that of Venus but it has high eccentricity (0.6115) and small orbital inclination (4.794°). With an absolute magnitude of 24.1, it has a diameter in the range 40–100 m (for an assumed albedo range of 0.04-0.20).

    Trojan dynamical state and orbital evolution

    Animation of 2013 ND15 relative to Sun and Venus

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    Animation of 2013 ND15 relative to Sun and Venus
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    2013 ND15 has been identified as a Venus trojan following a tadpole orbit around Venus' Lagrangian point L4. [6] Besides being a Venus co-orbital, this asteroid is also a Mercury crosser and an Earth crosser. 2013 ND15 exhibits resonant (or near-resonant) behavior with Mercury, Venus and Earth. [6] Its short-term dynamical evolution is different from that of the other three Venus co-orbitals, 2001 CK32 , Zoozve , and 2012 XE133 . [6]

    Potentially hazardous asteroid

    2013 ND15 is not included in the Minor Planet Center list of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) because its absolute magnitude is greater than 22.0, even though it comes to within 0.05 AU of Earth periodically. It approached Earth at 0.077 AU on 21 June 2016.

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    References

    1. List Of Aten Minor Planets
    2. 1 2 3 "2013 ND15". JPL Small-Body Database . Jet Propulsion Laboratory. SPK-ID:  3645042 . Retrieved 3 April 2016.
    3. AstDys-2 on 2013 ND15 Retrieved 2014-01-21
    4. NEODyS-2 on 2013 ND15 Retrieved 2014-01-21
    5. Absolute-magnitude conversion table (H)
    6. 1 2 3 4 de la Fuente Marcos, C.; de la Fuente Marcos, R. (2014). "Asteroid 2013 ND15: Trojan companion to Venus, PHA to the Earth". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 439 (3): 2970–2977. arXiv: 1401.5013 . Bibcode:2014MNRAS.439.2970D. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu152 .
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