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(85640) 1998 OX4

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Discovered by
  
MPC designation
  
(85640) 1998 OX4

Observation arc
  
3656 days (10.01 yr)

Inclination
  
4.5134807°

Asteroid group
  
Discovery date
  
26 July 1998

Alternative names
  
MPO 267962

Discovered
  
26 July 1998

Argument of perihelion
  
117.10906°

Discoverer
  
Minor planet category
  
Apollo NEO, PHAMars crosser

Discovery site
  
Kitt Peak National Observatory

Similar
  
(153814) 2001 WN5, (35396) 1997 XF11, 69230 Hermes, (144898) 2004 VD17, (137108) 1999 AN10

(85640) 1998 OX4, also written 1998 OX4, is an Apollo asteroid and a Mars crosser. It was discovered on July 26, 1998, by the Spacewatch program and subsequently lost. It was re-discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project on August 31, 2002, as 2002 PJ34. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 8 August 2002. It has a well determined orbit with an observation arc of more than 10 years. It is included in the Minor Planet Center list of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) as it comes to within 0.05 AU of Earth periodically.

References

(85640) 1998 OX4 Wikipedia


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