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 30 August 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.
3362 Khufu 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 0.0135 AU (2,020,000 km; 1,250,000 mi).[2] Its orbit is well-determined for the next several hundred years.
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
See also
References
- ^ "Khufu". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3362 Khufu (1984 QA)" (last observation: 2004-11-27). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ 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)
External links
- calculations by SOLEX
- 3362 Khufu at NeoDyS-2, Near Earth Objects—Dynamic Site
- 3362 Khufu at ESA–space situational awareness
- 3362 Khufu at the JPL Small-Body Database
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