Apollo
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Mars-crosser
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Alinda asteroid
The Alinda asteroids are a dynamical group of asteroids with a semi-major axis of about 2.5 AU and an orbital eccentricity approximately between 0.4 and 0.65.Eleanor F. Helin.
Its name has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka was studied simultaneously by three
radar
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California
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Ukraine
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Yevpatoria
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Japan
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. 'Golevka' comes from the first few letters of each observatory's name; it was proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by Alexander L. Zaitsev.
Golevka is a small object, measuring 0.6 × 1.4 km. The radar observations revealed that it has a very strange, angular shape that looks different depending on the direction. In 2003 the
Yarkovsky effect
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was first observed at work by high-precision radar observations of Golevka. Between 1991 and 2003, the small force of the Yarkovsky effect caused a shift of from what would be expected based on only gravitational interactions. This helped evaluate the asteroid's bulk density (2.7 ± 0.5 g/cm3) and mass (2.10 kg).
Golevka approaches Earth to in 2046, 0.10 AU in 2069, and 0.11 AU in 2092. On the other hand, Golevka's collision probability with any planet is negligible for at least the next nine centuries. Its orbit is strikingly similar to that of
4179 Toutatis
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in eccentricity, semi-major axis, and inclination. However, Toutatis is better known due to a close approach to Earth in 2004.