(53319) 1999 JM8

(53319) 1999 JM8

Radar image of (53319) 1999 JM8
Arecibo Observatory (Lance Benner, JPL)
Discovery
Discovered by LINEAR
Discovery date 13 May 1999
Designations
1990 HD1
Apollo PHA[1]
Mars crosser
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 9442 days (25.85 yr)
Aphelion 4.4760 AU (669.60 Gm)
Perihelion 0.97524 AU (145.894 Gm)
2.7256 AU (407.74 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.64220
4.50 yr (1643.6 d)
16.01 km/s
247.69°
 13m 8.508s / day
Inclination 13.856°
133.70°
166.76°
Earth MOID 0.0276419 AU (4.13517 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 0.842693 AU (126.0651 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 6.4 km [2]
Mean radius
3.5 ± 0.7 km
136 h (5.7 d)[1]
X [1]
15.2 [1]

    (53319) 1999 JM8 (also written (53319) 1999 JM8) is a Potentially hazardous asteroid, near-Earth asteroid and Mars-crosser asteroid discovered by LINEAR. Radar imaging by Goldstone and Arecibo has revealed the asteroid to have an effective diameter of 6.4 km.[2] Like the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, its rotation speed is unusually slow and possibly chaotic. It is the largest Potentially hazardous object known.

    It passed closer than 0.20 AU to the Earth five times in the last century (0.033 AU in 1990), but its closest approach in the 21st century will be in 2075 at 0.256 AU.[1]

    See also

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 53319 (1999 JM8)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
    2. 1 2 Brozovic, M.; Benner, L. A. M.; Nolan, M. C. (2012). "Shape Modeling of Near-Earth Asteroid (53319) 1999 JM8 from Goldstone and Arecibo Radar Images". Asteroids, Comets, Meteors. Bibcode:2012LPICo1667.6183B.
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