(153201) 2000 WO107
Sub-kilometer asteroid
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(153201) 2000 WO107 is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Aten group with a very well determined orbit.[1] It was discovered on 29 November 2000, by astronomers of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States.[2] It is a contact binary.[4]
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| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | LINEAR |
| Discovery site | Lincoln Lab's ETS |
| Discovery date | 29 November 2000 |
| Designations | |
| (153201) 2000 WO107 | |
| 2000 WO107 | |
| Aten · NEO · PHA[1][2] | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 2020-May-31 (JD 2459000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 20.0 yr (7,304 days) |
| Aphelion | 1.6231 AU |
| Perihelion | 0.2000 AU |
| 0.9115 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.7807 |
| 0.87 yr (318 days) | |
| 206.45° | |
| 1° 7m 57.72s / day | |
| Inclination | 7.7703° |
| 69.252° | |
| 13 October 2020 | |
| 213.72° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.0031 AU (460 thousand km; 1.2 LD) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 0.510±0.083 km[3] | |
| 4.8 hours[4] | |
| 0.129±0.058[3] | |
| SMASS = X[1] | |
| 19.3[1] | |
Orbit
The orbit of this potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) has been well-established with 20 years of observations. It orbits from inside the orbit of Mercury out to the orbit of Mars. It makes close approaches to all of the inner planets.[1]
2020
The asteroid came to perihelion on 13 October 2020[1] when it passed the Sun going 88 kilometers per second (320,000 kilometers per hour).[a] The asteroid was not more than 60 degrees from the Sun until 26 November 2020 and was observed by Goldstone radar on 27 November 2020.[4] On 29 November 2020 the asteroid passed 0.02876 AU (4.302 million km; 11.19 LD) from Earth.[1] Even the 2018 orbit solution had a known accuracy of roughly ±150 km for the close approach. With the radar observations the close approach distance is known with an accuracy of roughly ±5 km.
2140
This asteroid will pass 0.00162 AU (242 thousand km; 0.63 LD) from Earth on 1 December 2140.[1] The 2140 close approach distance is known with an accuracy of roughly ±1000 km. For comparison, the distance to the Moon is about 0.0026 AU (384,400 km).
The Jupiter Tisserand invariant, used to distinguish different kinds of orbits, is 6.228.[1]
| PHA | Date | Approach distance in lunar distances | Abs. mag (H) |
Diameterâ(C) (m) |
Refâ(D) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal(B) | Minimum | Maximum | |||||
| (152680) 1998 KJ9 | 1914-12-31 | 0.606 | 0.604 | 0.608 | 19.4 | 279â900 | data |
| (458732) 2011 MD5 | 1918-09-17 | 0.911 | 0.909 | 0.913 | 17.9 | 556â1795 | data |
| (163132) 2002 CU11 | 1925-08-30 | 0.903 | 0.901 | 0.905 | 18.5 | 443â477 | data |
| 69230 Hermes | 1937-10-30 | 1.926 | 1.926 | 1.927 | 17.5 | 700-900[5] | data |
| 69230 Hermes | 1942-04-26 | 1.651 | 1.651 | 1.651 | 17.5 | 700-900[5] | data |
| 2017 NM6 | 1959-07-12 | 1.89 | 1.846 | 1.934 | 18.8 | 580â1300 | data |
| (27002) 1998 DV9 | 1975-01-31 | 1.762 | 1.761 | 1.762 | 18.1 | 507â1637 | data |
| 2002 NY40 | 2002-08-18 | 1.371 | 1.371 | 1.371 | 19.0 | 335â1082 | data |
| 2004 XP14 | 2006-07-03 | 1.125 | 1.125 | 1.125 | 19.3 | 292â942 | data |
| 2015 TB145 | 2015-10-31 | 1.266 | 1.266 | 1.266 | 20.0 | 620-690 | data |
| (137108) 1999 AN10 | 2027-08-07 | 1.014 | 1.010 | 1.019 | 17.9 | 556â1793 | data |
| (153814) 2001 WN5 | 2028-06-26 | 0.647 | 0.647 | 0.647 | 18.2 | 921â943 | data |
| 99942 Apophis | 2029-04-13 | 0.0981 | 0.0963 | 0.1000 | 19.7 | 310â340 | data |
| 2017 MB1 | 2072-07-26 | 1.216 | 1.215 | 2.759 | 18.8 | 367â1186 | data |
| 2011 SM68 | 2072-10-17 | 1.875 | 1.865 | 1.886 | 19.6 | 254â820 | data |
| (163132) 2002 CU11 | 2080-08-31 | 1.655 | 1.654 | 1.656 | 18.5 | 443â477 | data |
| (416801) 1998 MZ | 2116-11-26 | 1.068 | 1.068 | 1.069 | 19.2 | 305â986 | data |
| (153201) 2000 WO107 | 2140-12-01 | 0.634 | 0.631 | 0.637 | 19.3 | 427â593 | data |
| (276033) 2002 AJ129 | 2172-02-08 | 1.783 | 1.775 | 1.792 | 18.7 | 385â1242 | data |
| (290772) 2005 VC | 2198-05-05 | 1.951 | 1.791 | 2.134 | 17.6 | 638â2061 | data |
| (A) This list includes near-Earth approaches of less than 2 lunar distances (LD) of objects with H brighter than 20. (B) Nominal geocentric distance from the center of Earth to the center of the object (Earth has a radius of approximately 6,400 km). (C) Diameter: estimated, theoretical mean-diameter based on H and albedo range between X and Y. (D) Reference: data source from the JPL SBDB, with AU converted into LD (1 AUâ390 LD) (E) Color codes: unobserved at close approach observed during close approach upcoming approaches | |||||||
Physical characteristics
In the SMASS classification, the object's spectral type is that of an X-type.[1][6] According to the space-based survey by NASA's NEOWISE mission, the asteroid measures 510 meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.129.[3]
Numbering and naming
This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 2007.[7] As of 2018, it has not been named.[2]
See also
Notes
- v = 42.1219 â1/r â 0.5/a, where r is the distance from the Sun, and a is the major semi-axis. Objects move fastest at perihelion and slowest at aphelion.
