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(121514) 1999 UJ₇
Discovery
Discovered by	30 October 1999 by LINEAR
Discovery site	Socorro
Discovery date	30 October 1999
Designations
Alternative designations	2002 AC180
Minor planet category	Martian L4
Orbital characteristics
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	21861 days (59.85 yr)
Aphelion	1.5843517 AU (237.01564 Gm)
Perihelion	1.4644704 AU (219.08165 Gm)
Semi-major axis	1.5244110 AU (228.04864 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.0393206
Orbital period (sidereal)	1.88 yr (687.47 d)
Mean anomaly	229.9277°
Mean motion	0° 31 25.183 / day
Inclination	16.75044°
Longitude of ascending node	347.37714°
Argument of perihelion	48.35771°
Earth MOID	0.47372 AU (70.868 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	3.49473 AU (522.804 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	~1 km
Spectral type	X
Absolute magnitude (H)	16.9

(121514) 1999 UJ₇ is a small asteroid orbiting near the L₄ point of Mars (60 degrees ahead Mars on its orbit). As of April 2024, it is one of only two known asteroids to orbit the leading L₄ point of Mars — the other being 2023 FW14 — although at least 15 other asteroids orbit Mars's trailing L₅ point: The largest being 5261 Eureka, (101429) 1998 VF31, and 2007 NS2. Not only does (121514) 1999 UJ₇ orbit on the other side of Mars from other similar asteroids, its spectrum is different as well, which is puzzling because all of the Martian trojans seem to be in very stable orbits.

Orbit

(121514) 1999 UJ₇ orbits around the L₄ point of Mars in a very stable orbit and is large enough that the Yarkovsky effect will not affect its orbit.

Physical characteristics

Due to similarity in the measured brightness of (121514) 1999 UJ₇ with other Martian trojans, it is thought to be a small asteroid with an effective diameter on the order of 1 kilometer (0.62 mi). Its spectrum suggests that it is an X-type asteroid, which is different from 5261 Eureka and 1998 VF₃₁, and is somewhat puzzling since different mineral compositions suggest different origins for the two groups of asteroids. The long lifetime of the orbits for these asteroids makes the possibility of one or more of them being interlopers unlikely, however. This suggests that either one or more of the Martian trojans was captured in such a way as to give it a long-term stable orbit (and it is therefore not a primordial Martian asteroid), or that some fusion or combination of previous asteroids resulted in the presently observed ones. The Yarkovsky effect may provide a potential capture mechanism but not enough is known about the shapes of these objects to provide a useful Yarkovsky model.

References

^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 121514 (1999 UJ7)". NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
^ Scholl, H.; Marzari, F.; Tricarico, P. (June 2005). "Dynamics of Mars Trojans" (PDF). Icarus. 175 (2): 397–408. Bibcode:2005Icar..175..397S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
^ Rivkin, A. S.; Binzel, R. P.; Howell, E. S.; Bus, S. J.; Grier, J. A. (October 2003). "Spectroscopy and photometry of Mars Trojans". Icarus. 165 (2): 349–354. Bibcode:2003Icar..165..349R. doi:10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00211-2.
de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl; de León, Julia; de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; Alarcon, Miguel R.; Licandro, Javier; Serra-Ricart, Miquel; Geier, Stefan; Cabrera-Lavers, Antonio (21 March 2024). "Dynamics of 2023 FW₁₄, the second L₄ Mars trojan, and a physical characterization using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias". Astronomy & Astrophysics, Letters to the Editor. 683 (1): L14 (6 pages). arXiv:2403.04061. Bibcode:2024A&A...683L..14D. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449688.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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