Astronomy:(636872) 2014 YX49

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Short description: Minor planet co-orbital with Uranus


(636872) 2014 YX49
Discovery[1]
Discovered byPan-STARRS
Discovery siteHaleakala Obs.
Discovery dateDecember 26, 2014
Designations
2014 YX49
Minor planet categoryUranus trojan centaur[2][3] · distant[1]
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5)
Uncertainty parameter 1
Observation arc4876 days (13.35 yr)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}24.4207 astronomical unit|AU (3.65328 Tm)
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}13.8401 AU (2.07045 Tm)
19.1304 AU (2.86187 Tm)
Eccentricity0.276539
Orbital period83.67 yr (30562 d)
Mean anomaly75.587°
Inclination25.55097°
Longitude of ascending node91.44425°
280.584°
Earth MOID12.9424 AU (1.93616 Tm)
Jupiter MOID9.47006 AU (1.416701 Tm)
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter77 km (est. at 0.09)[3]
Apparent magnitude21.6
Absolute magnitude (H)8.8


(636872) 2014 YX49 (provisional designation 2014 YX49) is a centaur and Uranus co-orbital, approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter, first observed on December 26, 2014, by the Pan-STARRS survey.[4] It is the second known centaur on a tadpole orbit with Uranus, and the fourth Uranus co-orbital discovered after 83982 Crantor, 2011 QF99 and (472651) 2015 DB216.[5]

Description

Centaur 2014 YX49 is a temporary L4 trojan of Uranus, the second one (2011 QF99 was identified first) to be confirmed as currently trapped in such a resonant state. This object may have remained as a L4 Uranian Trojan for about 60,000 years and it can continue that way for another 80,000 years. Numerical integrations suggest that it may stay within Uranus' co-orbital zone for nearly one million years.[5]

Besides being a L4 Uranian trojan, 2014 YX49 is trapped in the 7:20 mean motion resonance with Saturn as well; therefore, this minor body is currently subjected to a three-body resonance.[5] The other known Uranian trojan, 2011 QF99, is also in this resonant configuration.

Animation of 2014 YX49 relative to Sun and Uranus 1600-2500
  2014 YX49 ·   Uranus ·   Sun

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2014 YX49 - Minor Planet Center". International Astronomical Union. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2014+YX49&commit=Show. Retrieved 20 January 2017. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "JPL Small Body Database Browser". NASA. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2014%20YX49. Retrieved 20 January 2017. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Johnston, Wm. Robert (18 August 2020). "List of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects". Johnston's Archive. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html. Retrieved 12 August 2021. 
  4. "MPEC 2016-O10 : 2014 YX49". International Astronomical Union. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K16/K16O10.html. Retrieved 20 January 2017. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (15 May 2017). "Asteroid 2014 YX49: a large transient Trojan of Uranus". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 467 (2): 1561–1568. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx197. Bibcode2017MNRAS.467.1561D. 

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