| Minorplanet | yes |
|---|---|
| Background |
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| Discoverer | Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker |
| Discovery site | Palomar |
| Discovered | 27 May 1984 |
| Mpc name | (6063) Jason |
| Alt names | 1984 KB |
| Named after | Jason |
| Pronounced | /dZeis@n/[1] |
| Epoch | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
| Observation arc | 20042 days (54.87 yr) |
| Uncertainty | 0 |
| Earliest precovery date | 22 October 1960 |
| Aphelion | 3.9085 AU (584.70 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 0.51677 AU (77.308 Gm) |
| Semimajor | 2.2126 AU (331.00 Gm) |
| Eccentricity | 0.76645 |
| Period | 3.29 yr (1202.2 d) |
| Inclination | 4.9212° |
| Asc node | 169.443° |
| Mean motion | / day |
| Mean anomaly | 223.847° |
| Arg peri | 337.103° |
| Moid | 0.0744625 AU (11.13943 Gm) |
| Mean diameter | 1.4 km[2] |
| Rotation | 51.7 h |
| Albedo | 0.21[2] |
| Abs magnitude | 15.9[2] |
6063 Jason (prov. designation: ) is an Apollo asteroid discovered on 27 May 1984, by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar. Its highly eccentric orbit crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus. From 1800 to 2200 it approached a planet within 30 million km 69 times: Mercury 11, Venus 27, Earth 18, and Mars 13 times.
Jason has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.074 astronomical units and is associated with the Beta Taurids and Northern and Southern Taurids (Taurid Complex).[3]
References
- ^ "Jason". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020.
- ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 6063 Jason (1984 KB)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ Babadzhanov, P. B. (2001). "Search for meteor showers associated with Near-Earth Asteroids". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 373 (1): 329–335. Bibcode:2001A&A...373..329B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20010583