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(144898) 2004 VD17

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Discovered by
  
LINEAR

Observation arc
  
4778 days (13.08 yr)

Discovered
  
7 November 2004

Spectral type
  
E-type asteroid

Discovery date
  
7 November 2004

Orbital period
  
676 days

Inclination
  
4.22348°

Asteroid group
  
Apollo asteroid

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Minor planet category
  
Apollo asteroid, Earth-crosser asteroid Venus-crosser asteroid Mars-crosser asteroid

Aphelion
  
2.39574 AU (358.398 Gm)

Perihelion
  
0.619854 AU (92.7288 Gm)

Discoverer
  
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

Similar
  
Solar System, 2007 VK184, 2004 XP14, (153814) 2001 WN5, 3103 Eger

(144898) 2004 VD17 (previously known by its provisional designation 2004 VD17) is a near-Earth asteroid once thought to have a low probability of impacting Earth on May 4, 2102. From February to May 2006, it was listed with a Torino Scale impact risk value of 2, only the second asteroid in risk-monitoring history to be rated above value 1. The Torino rating was lowered to 1 after additional observations on May 20, 2006, and finally dropped to 0 on October 17, 2006. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 14 February 2008.

As of January 4, 2008, the Sentry Risk Table assigned 2004 VD17 a Torino value of 0 and an impact probability of 1 in 58.8 million for May 4, 2102. This value was far below the background impact rate of objects this size.

2004 VD17 was discovered on November 7, 2004, by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey. The object is estimated by NASA's Near Earth Object Program Office to be 580 meters in diameter with an approximate mass of 2.6×1011 kg.

It will pass 0.02 AU (3,000,000 km; 1,900,000 mi) from the Earth on May 1, 2032, allowing a refinement to the orbit.

Being ~580 meters in diameter, if 2004 VD17 were to impact land, it would create an impact crater about 10 kilometres wide and generate an earthquake of magnitude 7.4.

References

(144898) 2004 VD17 Wikipedia


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