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is a near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. The orbit was described by Christou Apostolos and David Asher at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. The object has a magnitude of 20.7 and is several hundred meters in diameter. has a horseshoe orbit that allows it to stably share Earth's orbital neighborhood without colliding with it. It is one of a handful of known asteroids with an Earth-following orbit, a group that includes 3753 Cruithne, and the only known asteroid in an horseshoe orbit with Earth. It is, however, neither an Aten asteroid nor an Apollo asteroid because the semi-major axis of its orbit is neither less than nor greater than 1 AU, but oscillates between approximately 0.996 and 1.004 AU, with a period of about 350 yr.〔 In its ~350 yr horseshoe cycle, it never approaches Earth more closely than about 0.15 AU, alternately trailing and leading. According to various simulations will remain in this orbit for at least 120,000 years and possibly for more than a million years, which is unusually stable compared to other similar objects.〔(Asteroid Discovered in Horseshoe-Shaped Orbit ), The Physics arXiv Blog, ''Technology Review'', 4/05/2011〕 One reason for this stability is its low orbital eccentricity, .〔 A precovery of may have been located in a 2005 Spitzer Space Telescope image.〔 ==See also== *3753 Cruithne – a horseshoe companion of the Earth * – a small asteroid that sometimes temporarily gets caught in Earth orbit * – a horseshoe companion of the Earth *Natural satellite 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「(419624) 2010 SO16」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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