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2010 AU118

Potential Mars-crossing asteroid


Potential Mars-crossing asteroid

FieldValue
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name
discovery_ref
discovererWISE (C51)
discovered27 May 2010
mpc_name
mp_category{{Hlist
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orbit_ref
epoch21 November 2025
uncertainty2
observation_arc5,556 days (15.21 years)
moid0.401984 AU
aphelion4.40099 AU (Q)
perihelion1.37270 AU (q)
semimajor2.88684 AU (a)
eccentricity0.524497
period4.90505 years (1,791.57 days)
inclination42.4926°
asc_node49.5165°
mean_anomaly115.811° (M)
arg_peri18.2944°
dimensions~1.9 km
mass(assumed)
abs_magnitude17.28

| Mars-crossing | Amor | NEO **** (also written 2010 AU118) is a potential Amor near-Earth asteroid with an observation arc of 5,556 days. It was announced on 27 May 2010 based on images taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) on 13–15 January 2010. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 14 June 2014 as a result of an update to the Sentry software. Another software update restored it to the Sentry Risk Table in 2017. It was again removed from the sentry list on 3 October 2018.

was observed 19 times over a very short observation arc of 1.4 days during 13–15 January 2010, and a further 19 times up to 31 March 2025. On 14 January 2010 the asteroid was estimated to have been 1.8 AU from Earth with an uncertainty in the asteroids distance of ±300 million km. The asteroid's orbit might not get closer than Mars and/or reach beyond Jupiter.

WISE estimates the asteroid to be 1900 m in diameter. In 2018, was the largest object listed on the Sentry Risk Table. It has an uncertainty parameter of 2. Virtual clones of the asteroid that fit the uncertainty region in the known trajectory, showed a 1 in 770 million chance that the asteroid would have impacted the Earth on 20 October 2020. With a Palermo Technical Scale of −3.14, the odds of an impact by in 2020 were about 1400 times less than the background hazard level of Earth impacts, which is defined as the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of the potential impact. NEODyS lists the nominal 20 October 2020 Earth distance as 3 AU.

References

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References

  1. Math: 103.14 = 1380
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