(219774) 2001 YY145
Main-belt asteroid
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(219774) 2001 YY145, provisional designation 2001 YY145 is a stony background asteroid and exceptionally slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 18 December 2001, by astronomers with the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the United States.[1] The assumed S-type asteroid is likely elongated and has a rarely seen rotation period of 1007 hours, making it the 13th slowest rotator.[5]
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | LONEOS |
| Discovery site | Anderson Mesa Stn. |
| Discovery date | 18 December 2001 |
| Designations | |
| (219774) 2001 YY145 | |
| 2001 YY145 · 2005 TA170 | |
| main-belt[1][2] · (middle) background[3][4] | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 15.92 yr (5,815 d) |
| Aphelion | 2.9215 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.2404 AU |
| 2.5810 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1320 |
| 4.15 yr (1,515 d) | |
| 48.043° | |
| 0° 14m 15.72s / day | |
| Inclination | 9.6001° |
| 315.61° | |
| 18.718° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 1.54 km (calculated)[5] | |
| 1007.6706±86.3718 h[4][6] | |
| 0.20 (assumed)[5] | |
| S (assumed)[5] | |
| 15.9[1][2] 15.977±0.011 (R)[6] 16.43[5] | |
Orbit and classification
2001 YY145 is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population.[3][4] It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2â2.9 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,515 days; semi-major axis of 2.58 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic.[2] A first precovery was taken at Lincoln Lab's ETS in October 2001, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 2 months prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.[1]
Physical characteristics
The object is an assumed, common S-type asteroid.[5]
Slow rotator
In October 2013, a rotational lightcurve was obtained of this asteroid from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. It gave a rotation period of 1007.7 hours â or nearly 42 days â with an assigned error margin of ±86 hours. According to the Light Curve Data Base, it is the 13th slowest rotating minor planet known to exist among more than 15,000 observed small Solar System bodies. Due to its high brightness variation of 0.86 magnitude, the body is likely to have a non-spheroidal shape (U=2).[6] As of 2018, no follow-up observation have been published.[5]
Diameter and albedo
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 1.54 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 16.43.[5]
Numbering and naming
This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009.[7] As of 2018, it has not been named.[1]
