Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discovered: | 11 December 2006 |
Mpc Name: | (417634) |
Epoch: | 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Observation Arc: | 8.09 yr (2,956 days) |
Perihelion: | 0.9943 AU |
Semimajor: | 2.4580 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.5955 |
Period: | 3.85 yr (1,408 days) |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 20.493° |
Asc Node: | 38.478° |
Arg Peri: | 344.11° |
Moid: | 0.0157 AU (6.1 LD) |
Abs Magnitude: | 18.5 |
provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, that had a low but non-zero probability of impacting Earth on 31 October 2041. The asteroid was discovered on 20 September 2006, by astronomers of the Catalina Sky Survey, using a dedicated 0.68-meter telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, United States.
Originally listed with a Torino Scale hazard rating of 0, this was raised to a rating of 1 on 22 December 2006 as a result of additional observations and refinement of the orbital calculations. However, on 9 January 2007 it was returned to a rating of 0. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 7 February 2007.
It is now known that the asteroid will not make a close approach to the Earth in 2041. On 31 October 2041, the asteroid will be 1.69abbr=onNaNabbr=on from the Earth. passed 0.0298abbr=onNaNabbr=on from asteroid 87 Sylvia on 20 June 1969. It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid.
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, measures 418 meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.154. Previously, JPL's Sentry System estimated a diameter of 670 meters with a mass of .