3362 Khufu
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | R. S. Dunbar, M. Barucci |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovery date | Aug 30, 1984 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Aphelion | 1.453 AU |
| Perihelion | 0.5259 AU |
| 0.989 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.468 |
| 0.98 yr | |
| Inclination | 9.9 deg |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 0.7 km |
| Albedo | 0.21[1] |
Spectral type | B-type asteroid[2] |
| 18.3 | |
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3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Khufu was the 4th Aten asteroid to be numbered.
Khufu crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus and makes close approaches to Mercury as well. From 1900 to 2100 it drew nearer than 30 Gm (0.2 AU) to Mercury 26, Venus 27, Earth 20, and Mars 11 times.
Orbit
References
- ↑ Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids (1994), Ed. T. Gehrels, pp.540-543
- ↑ based on a high-resolution spectrum by Xu et al. (1995) or Bus and Binzel (2002)
See also
- List of asteroids/3001–4000
- Venus-crosser asteroid
- Mars-crosser asteroid
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