Characterization of the near-Earth Asteroid 2002 NY40 |
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| Authors: | Lewis C Roberts Jr Doyle T Hall John V Lambert John L Africano Keith T Knox Jacob K Barros Kris M Hamada Dennis Liang Paul F Sydney Paul W Kervin |
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| Institution: | aThe Boeing Company, 535 Lipoa Pkwy, Suite 200, Kihei, HI 96753, USA;bDetachment 15, Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate, 535 Lipoa Pkwy, Suite 200, Kihei, HI 96753, USA |
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| Abstract: | In August 2002, the near-Earth Asteroid 2002 NY40, made its closest approach to the Earth. This provided an opportunity to study a near-Earth asteroid with a variety of instruments. Several of the telescopes at the Maui Space Surveillance System were trained at the asteroid and collected adaptive optics images, photometry and spectroscopy. Analysis of the imagery reveals the asteroid is triangular shaped with significant self-shadowing. The photometry reveals a 20-h period and the spectroscopy shows that the asteroid is a Q-type. |
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| Keywords: | Asteroids Near-Earth objects Spectroscopy Adaptive optics |
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