(85990) 1999 JV6
Radar images of 1999 JV6 taken by the Goldstone Radar on 12 January 2015 | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | LINEAR |
| Discovery site | Lincoln Lab's ETS |
| Discovery date | 13 May 1999 |
| Designations | |
| 1999 JV6 | |
| Apollo · NEO · PHA | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 31 May 2020 (JD 2459000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 20.76 yr (7,582 days) |
| Aphelion | 1.3219 AU |
| Perihelion | 0.6946 AU |
| 1.0082 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.31110 |
| 1.01 yr | |
| 194.713° | |
| 0° 58m 24.915s / day | |
| Inclination | 5.359° |
| 124.318° | |
| 235.531° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.03152 AU |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 0.451±0.026 km | |
| 6.538 h | |
| 0.095±0.023 | |
| Xk (SMASS) | |
| 20.2 | |
(85990) 1999 JV6 (provisional designation 1999 JV6) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object of the Apollo group. It was discovered by astronomers of the LINEAR program at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico. 1999 JV6 is a contact binary object consisting of two distinct lobes, as seen in radar images from various observatories including Arecibo and Goldstone in January 2015.