Future NEA radar target rotation periods


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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Click here for a list of PREVIOUS near-Earth asteroid radar targets,
rotation periods, and upcoming optical apparitions

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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
====                   ========          =====   =====  ==========  ===
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.



Lance Benner
Last modified: Sat Sep 29 15:32:01 PDT 2007