List of Apollo asteroids

The Apollo asteroid group compared to the orbits of the terrestrial planets of the Solar System.

Mars (M)       Venus (V)       Mercury (H)

Sun       Apollo asteroids       Earth (E)

The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group which was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s. They are Earth-crosser asteroids that have orbital semi-major axis greater than that of the Earth (> 1 AU) but perihelion distances less than the Earth's aphelion distance (q < 1.017 AU).

As of August 2015, the Apollo asteroid group includes a total of 6,923 known asteroids of which 991 are currently numbered. Asteroids are not numbered until they have been observed at two or more oppositions. More than a thousand Apollo asteroids are large enough and may get close enough to Earth to be known as potentially hazardous asteroids.

The closer their semi-major axis is to Earth's, the less eccentricity is needed for the orbits to cross. The February 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals region of Russia, injuring an estimated one thousand people with flying glass from broken windows, was an Apollo class asteroid.

The largest known Apollo asteroid is 1866 Sisyphus, with a diameter of about 8.5 km. Examples of known Apollo asteroids include:

Name	Year	Discoverer A
2013 FW13	2013	CSS
2013 RH74	2013	CSS
2011 MD	2011	LINEAR
2011 EO40	2011	CSS–Mount Lemmon Survey
2010 AL30	2010	LINEAR
2009 WM1	2009	CSS
2009 DD45	2009	Siding Spring Observatory, Australia
(386454) 2008 XM	2008	LINEAR
2008 TC3	2008	CSS
2008 FF5	2008	CSS–Mount Lemmon Survey
2007 VK184	2007	CSS
2007 TU24	2007	CSS
2007 WD5	2007	CSS
2007 OX	2007	CSS–Mount Lemmon Survey
(277810) 2006 FV35	2006	Spacewatch
(394130) 2006 HY51	2006	LINEAR
(292220) 2006 SU49	2006	Spacewatch
(308635) 2005 YU55	2005	R. S. McMillan, Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak, USA
2005 HC4	2005	LONEOS
2005 WY55	2005
(374158) 2004 UL	2004	LINEAR
2004 XP14	2004	LINEAR
(444004) 2004 AS1	2004	LINEAR
2003 RW11	2003	James Whitney Young
2003 BV35	2003	James Whitney Young
(89958) 2002 LY45	2002	LINEAR
(179806) 2002 TD66	2002	LINEAR
54509 YORP	2000	LINEAR
(137108) 1999 AN10	1999	LINEAR
101955 Bennu	1999	LINEAR
1998 KY26	1998	Spacewatch
(433953) 1997 XR2	1997	LINEAR
65803 Didymos	1996	Spacewatch
69230 Hermes	1937	Karl Reinmuth
(53319) 1999 JM8	1999	LINEAR
(52760) 1998 ML14	1998	LINEAR
(35396) 1997 XF11	1997	Spacewatch
25143 Itokawa	1998	LINEAR
(136617) 1994 CC	1994	Spacewatch
(175706) 1996 FG3	1996	R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory, Australia
6489 Golevka	1991	Eleanor F. Helin
4769 Castalia	1989	Eleanor F. Helin
4660 Nereus	1982	Eleanor F. Helin
4581 Asclepius	1989	Henry E. Holt, Norman G. Thomas
4486 Mithra	1987	Eric Elst, Vladimir Shkodrov
14827 Hypnos	1986	Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
4197 Morpheus	1982	Eleanor F. Helin, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
4183 Cuno	1959	Cuno Hoffmeister
4179 Toutatis	1989	Christian Pollas
4015 Wilson–Harrington	1979	Eleanor F. Helin
3200 Phaethon	1983	Simon F. Green, John K.Davies / IRAS
2063 Bacchus	1977	Charles T. Kowal
1866 Sisyphus	1972	Paul Wild
1620 Geographos	1951	Albert George Wilson, Rudolph Minkowski
(29075) 1950 DA	1950	Carl A. Wirtanen
1566 Icarus	1949	Walter Baade
1685 Toro	1948	Carl A. Wirtanen
2101 Adonis	1936	Eugène Joseph Delporte
1862 Apollo	1932	Karl Reinmuth
(A) Discoverer: LINEAR: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research CSS : Catalina Sky Survey Spacewatch, on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, Arizona

See also

• Apollo asteroids (category)
• Apollo asteroid records

References

• NASA (21 January 2014), Near-Earth Object Groups, retrieved 21 January 2014.

External links

• List of Apollo minor planets