Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
2005 LW3
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
15 April 2023
--Orbital and physical data--
(See this page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, see this link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
dynamical type, primary:
NEA, Apollo
(PHA)
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
1.4386823182 AU
|
orbital period P: |
1.725661307 yr (= 630.2977923 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.463841167
|
perihelion distance q: |
0.771362233 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
2.106002403 AU
|
inclination i: |
6.020943°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
288.6627768°
|
ascending node Ω: |
59.5875433°
|
mean anomaly M: |
81.3845482°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2022 Oct 05.5097192
|
Epoch: |
2023 Feb 25
|
data arc: |
2005-2022
(78 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
0.00139695 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
4.543
|
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
4
km
(separation)
[N22b]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 20 [*D] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.16 [*D] |
orbital period Ps: |
9.5
d [*D]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
21.89
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
0.43
km [*D]
|
geometric albedo: |
0.017
[*D]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1.6
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
24 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
0.4
km [N22b]
|
rotation period RPp: |
3.6
h [N22b]
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
0.15
km [N22b]
|
dimensions : | 0.2 x 0.1 x ?km [N22b] |
axial ratios a/b, b/c: | 2;? [] |
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.38
[*D]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
2.1
[*D]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
2005 LW3
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2005 Jun 05
from
Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia
by
Siding Spring Survey.
Companion discovered
2022 Nov 23
by S. P. Naidu, L. A. M. Benner, M. Brozovic, J. D. Giorgini, S. Horiuchi, I. Savill-Brown, J. Stevens, C. Phillips, P. Edwards, and E. Kruzins
using
radar
observations from Goldstone Observatory, California, USA.
Announced
2022 Nov [B22g].
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2022, 2023
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
15 April 2023.
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