3361 Orpheus

Orpheus
Discovery
Discovered by Carlos Torres
Discovery site Cerro El Roble
Discovery date 24 April 1982
Designations
MPC designation (3361) Orpheus
Named after
 Orpheus
1982 HR
PHA[1]
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 13 June 2008 (JD 2454630.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 11752 days (32.18 yr)
Aphelion 1.5999 AU (239.34 Gm)
Perihelion 0.81893 AU (122.510 Gm)
1.2094 AU (180.92 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.32288
1.33 yr (485.82 d)
283.408°
0° 44m 27.636s / day
Inclination 2.6849°
189.602°
301.651°
Earth MOID 0.0139175 AU (2.08203 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 3.44955 AU (516.045 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 5.214
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 0.3 km[1]
Mean radius
 0.15 km
3.532 h (0.1472 d)
3.53 h[1]
19.03[1]

    3361 Orpheus (1982 HR) is an Apollo asteroid that was discovered on 24 April 1982 by Carlos Torres at Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station. Its eccentric orbit crosses that of Mars and Earth, and approaches Venus as well. From 1900 to 2100 it passes closer than 30 Gm to Venus 11, Earth 33, and Mars 14 times. It passed by Earth at a distance of about 40 lunar distances on 7 December 2013.

    3361 Orpheus is a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) because its minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) is less than 0.05 AU and its diameter is greater than 150 meters. The Earth-MOID is 0.0139 AU (2,080,000 km; 1,290,000 mi).[1] Its orbit is well-determined for the next several hundred years.

    The orbital solution includes non-gravitational forces.[1]

    Missions

    3361 Orpheus had been one of the originally proposed targets for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission.

    The proposed AIDA may make a fly-by observation of 3361 Orpheus during its trajectory to asteroid 65803 Didymos.[2]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3361 Orpheus (1982 HR)" (last observation: 27 June 2014). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
    2. ↑ A.F. Cheng et al., "Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission: Kinetic impactor," Planetary and Space Science (Available online 4 January 2016)
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