Bibcode
Aznar, A.; de León, J.; Popescu, M.; Serra-Ricart, M.; Short, P.; Pravec, P.; Vaduvescu, O.; Licandro, J.; Ortiz, J. L.; Sota, A.; Morales, N.; Lorenzi, V.; Warner, B.; Oey, J.; Groom, R.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 483, Issue 4, p.4820-4827
Fecha de publicación:
3
2019
Número de citas
4
Número de citas referidas
4
Descripción
The study of minor planets is motivated both by fundamental science of
Solar system origins (some of these bodies contain the most pristine
materials from the early ages of the planetary nebula) and by practical
reasons concerning space exploration and impact frequency with Earth.
Among minor bodies, near-Earth asteroids are a particularly important
group: these objects are nearby the Earth's orbit and they represent
both resources and hazards to humans. This is the case of 2014
JO25. The encounter of this potentially hazardous asteroid
with the Earth at 0.011 75 au on 2017 April 19 was a good opportunity to
study its properties through photometric and spectral analyses. The work
we present here has been carried out thanks to a worldwide observational
campaign that included time-series photometry and spectroscopy in the
visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The optical images for
photometric analysis were collected at different phase angles using
small telescopes (<0.5 m) and medium telescopes (from 0.6 to 1.5 m).
Spectral analysis was performed by 2-4 m telescopes. The light curve of
2014 JO25 indicates a synodic rotational period of 4.5286
± 0.0004 h. Although rotational period had been previously
obtained by other authors, this work confirms it with a better accuracy.
The obtained reflectance spectrum of this asteroid indicates that it
belongs to the S-complex and its surface is most likely composed of a
mixture of pyroxenes and olivine. From the comparison of its spectrum to
those of meteorite samples, as well as from the wavelength position of
the first absorption band (close to 0.9 μm), we suggest that this
asteroid might contain a large fraction of low-calcium pyroxene and,
tentatively, some amounts of metal.
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