Arjuna asteroid

The Arjuna asteroids are a class of near-Earth asteroids (NEOs) whose orbits are very Earth-like in character, having low inclination, orbital periods close to one Earth year, and low eccentricity. The class is named after Arjuna, a central hero in Hindu mythology. The definition is somewhat fuzzy and overlaps the definition of the three well-established families Apollo, Amor and Aten. They constitute a dynamically cold group of small NEOs that experience repeated trappings in the 1:1 mean motion resonance with the Earth.

Possible Arjunas

• 1991 VG
• 2003 YN107
• 2006 JY26
• 2009 SH2
• 2013 BS45

References

Further reading

• Evidence for a near-Earth asteroid belt Rabinowitz, David L.; Gehrels, Tom; Scotti, James V.; McMillan, Robert S.; Perry, Marcus L.; Wiśniewski, Wiesław Z.; Larson, Stephen M.; Howell, Ellen S.; & Mueller, Beatrice E. A. (1993), Nature, Volume 363, no. 6431, pp. 704-706.
• The Near-Earth Object Population Gladman, Brett J.; Michel, Patrick; & Froeschlé, Claude (2000), Icarus, Volume 146, Issue 1, pp. 176-189.
• A resonant family of dynamically cold small bodies in the near-Earth asteroid belt de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (2013), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 434, Issue 1, pp. L1-L5.
• Geometric characterization of the Arjuna orbital domain de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (2015), Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 336, Issue 1, pp. 5–22.