Asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3, the smallest and closest Earth quasi-satellite
@article{Marcos2016Asteroid2, title={Asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3, the smallest and closest Earth quasi-satellite}, author={C. D. L. F. Marcos and R. D. L. F. Marcos}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2016}, volume={462}, pages={3441-3456} }
A number of Earth co-orbital asteroids experience repeated transitions between the quasi-satellite and horseshoe dynamical states. Asteroids 2001 GO2, 2002 AA29, 2003 YN107 and 2015 SO2 are well-documented cases of such a dynamical behaviour. These transitions depend on the gravitational influence of other planets, owing to the overlapping of a multiplicity of secular resonances. Here, we show that the recently discovered asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3 is a quasi-satellite of our planet -the fifth… Expand
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