Rotation periods and upcoming apparitions for future near-Earth asteroid
radar targets
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/~lance/future.radar.nea.periods.html
Last updated: 2008 March 27
Lance A. M. Benner
Includes apparitions through December, 2010 in all cases and through 2015 in
specific instances.
Solar elongations >= 90 deg
Visual magnitudes < 20
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UPCOMING NEAR-EARTH OBJECT RADAR TARGETS
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Radar future max
Observations H optical vis
Date Asteroid (mag) P (h) apparitions mag
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2008 Apr 2005 NB7 18.7 ? Apr 2008 14.8
Feb 2011 19.0
Jun 2011 20.0
Jul 2014 21.0
2008 May 2008 DE 19.4 ? May 2008 15.9
Jan 2010 21.8
2008 May-Jun 53319 1999 JM8 15.0 ~7 days May 2008 15.2 NPA rotator
Oct 2008 16.7
Jan 2010 20.9
Jan 2011 21.0
Mar 2012 19.3
Dec 2013 20.1
Jan 2015 21.2
Dec 2015 21.4
2008 Jul 2008 BT18 18.4 ? Apr 2008 19.4
Jul 2008 12.7
Jan 2011 21.7
2008 Jul 90403 2003 YE45 17.5 ? Jan 2008 16.8
Jul 2008 14.9
Dec 2011 18.3
Jan 2015 18.3
Oct 2015 18.6
2008 Jul 2005 RC34 19.5 ? Jul 2008 13.9
Jun 2011 18.9
Dec 2014 21.0
2008 Aug 35107 1991 VH 16.6 2.624 Jul 2008 15.0 BINARY
Dec 2008 15.7
Mar 2014 16.1
Dec 2014 17.3
2008 Sep 8567 1996 HW1 15.3 8.76 Sep 2008 12.4
Mar 2010 19.2
Dec 2011 16.1
Mar 2013 19.2
Dec 2014 17.1
2008 Sep 2000 DP107 18.2 BINARY
2.7755 for primary, 42.12 for secondary
Feb 2008 18.2
Sep 2008 14.4
Jan 2011 19.7
Dec 2013 19.6
Dec 2015 21.0
2008 Sep 137032 1998 UO1 16.6 2.90 Oct 2008 13.7
Dec 2009 20.7
Oct 2010 14.5
Dec 2011 19.7
Oct 2012 15.7
Dec 2013 20.8
Oct 2014 16.5
Dec 2015 20.8
2008 Oct 2005 GN59 17.1 ? Sep 2008 13.7
Jul 2010 18.6
Feb 2011 17.9
Jun 2012 19.5
Jun 2014 19.9
2008 Nov 85774 1998 UT18 19.1 34 Nov 2008 16.3 PHA
May 2009 18.4
Jul 2011 20.9
Nov 2013 17.8
May 2014 18.7
2008 Dec 2004 XL14 21.2 ~20 Dec 2008 18.3 PHA
Dec 2012 21.0
2008 Dec 2004 LV3 18.6 ? Jun 2008 18.3 PHA
Dec 2008 15.7
Jun 2012 20.2
2009 Jan 136849 1998 CS1 18.0 ? Nov 2006 19.8
Aug 2007 17.8
Jan 2009 12.6
Oct 2011 20.6
Oct 2013 20.7
Nov 2015 20.2
Objects requested at Goldstone farther into the future (many will
probably become Arecibo targets as well):
2009 Feb 2006 AS2 20.3 ? Feb 2009 15.0
Feb 2012 19.9
Aug 2012 21.5
Dec 2014 20.8
Aug 2015 20.0
2009 Feb 1999 AQ10 20.3 ? Nov 2007 18.2
Feb 2009 13.6
2009 Jun 136617 1994 CC 17.9 ? Nov 2007 19.0
Jun 2009 12.8
Oct 2009 17.6
Mar 2011 18.6
Sep 2011 18.0
Feb 2013 19.5
Feb 2015 20.0
2009 Sep 2000 CO101 18.8 ? Sep 2009 14.3
2009 Sep 1998 FW4 19.5 ? Sep 2009 14.3
Sep 2013 15.2
Apr 2014 21.8
2009 Oct 68216 2001 CV26 16.2 ? Oct 2009 12.9 DURING THE SAN JUAN, DPS MEETING
Oct 2012 15.6
Mar 2015 15.6
Oct 2015 16.9
2009 Oct 1999 AP10 16.4 ? Oct 2009 12.9
Apr 2011 21.5
Jun 2012 21.1
Mar 2014 19.7
May 2015 21.7
2010 Jun 1999 MN 21.5 ? Jun 2010 15.0
Jun 2010 15.0
Jun 2015 16.8
2010 Sep-Oct 137032 1998 U01 16.6 2.90 Sep 2008 13.6
Dec 2009 20.7
Oct 2010 14.5
Dec 2011 19.7
Oct 2012 15.7
Dec 2013 20.8
Oct 2014 16.5
Dec 2015 20.8
2010 Oct 2003 UV11 19.3 ? Oct 2010 12.2
2010 Nov 2002 VE68 20.1 13.5 Nov 2010 14.8 (10.6 h also possible)
2011 Dec 2000 YA 23.8 0.666 After 2015
2012 Jan 7341 1991 VK 16.7 4.21 Jul 2008 20.1 PHA
Jul 2010 20.1
Nov 2011 16.3
Feb 2012 14.9
Jul 2013 20.0
Jun 2015 20.1
2012 Jan 433 Eros 11.2 5.27 Sep 2009 11.9
Feb 2012 8.6
Jun 2014 12.0
2012 Feb 2000 ET70 18.1 ? After 2010
2012 May 1998 HE3 21.7 ? After 2010
2012 Jul 2002 AM31 18.1 ? After 2010
2012 Oct 1998 ST49 17.6 ? After 2010
2013 Jan 2002 AY1 20.9 ? Jan 2013 16.1 PHA
Dec 2014 20.6
2013 May 2002 OD20 18.8 ? Aug 2010 19.9
2013 May-Jun 1998 QE2 16.4 ? Jan 2009 19.4
2013 Aug 1999 CF9 17.9 ? After 2010
2013 Aug 52760 1998 ML14 17.6 14.98 Aug 2013 15.2
Nov 2013 17.9
2013 Sep 1998 FW4 19.5 ? Sep 2009 14.3
2013 Sep 2002 OA22 19.3 ? After 2010
2013 Nov 2001 AV43 24.6 0.17 Nov 2013 18.4
2014 May 2000 RS11 18.8 ? After 2010
2014 May P/2004 CB LINEAR 17.4? ? Mar 2009 17.3? COMET
May 2009 17.8?
2014 Jun 152770 2002 SR41 20.1 ? Oct 2011 19.2 PHA
Aug 2012 21.2
Jul 2013 20.9
Jun 2014 16.5
2014 Aug 2002 CU11 18.4 ? Feb 2010 17.2
2014 Oct 2340 Hathor 19.2 ? Oct 2007 16.3
2015 Jan 2004 BL86 18.8 ? After 2010
2015 Jun 1566 Icarus 16.9 2.273 Aug 2009 17.8
Aug 2010 18.1
Aug 2011 18.9
Jul 2012 19.1
Jul 2013 18.7
Jun 2014 17.5
Jun 2015 13.5
2015 Jul 1994 AW1 17.0 BINARY
2.519 primary, 22.40 secondary
Jan 2008 17.1
Dec 2008 17.8
2015 Jul 85898 1999 JD6 16.9 7.68 May 2009 17.5
Jul 2010 14.5
2015 Aug 2003 RB 18.6 ? After 2010
2015 Dec 33342 1998 WT24 18.0 3.697 Dec 2015 11.3
2015 Dec 2003 SD220 17.0 ? After 2010
Note: Most of the rotation periods were taken from Horizons. Slightly different
values may be available from Petr Pravec, Michael Hicks, Peter Brown, other
observers, unpublished radar observations, and from more recent references than
those cited on Horizons. In some cases, bounds from unpublished radar
observations were used.