Key facts
- Discovered by
- Eleanor F. Helin
- Discovery date
- 10 May 1991
- Alternative designations
- 1991 JX
- Minor planet category
- Alinda Apollo PHA Mars-crosser
- Observation arc
- 8968 days (24.55 yr)
- Aphelion
- 4.021663 AU (601.6322 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 0.992813 AU (148.5227 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 2.507238 AU (375.0775 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 3.97 yr (1450.1 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 213.841234 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 14 53.744 / day
- Inclination
- 2.278065°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 211.596909°
- Argument of perihelion
- 65.939347°
- Earth moid
- 0.0288423 AU (4.31475 Gm)
- Jupiter moid
- 1.13922 AU (170.425 Gm)
- Mean diameter
- 0.53 km
- Mass
- 2.10 × 10 kg
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Encyclopedic overview
6489 Golevka is an Apollo, Mars-crosser, and Alinda asteroid discovered in 1991 by Eleanor F. Helin.
Its name has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka was studied simultaneously by three radar observatories across the world: Goldstone in California, Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Ukraine (Yevpatoria is sometimes romanized as Evpatoria) and Kashima in Japan. '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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “6489 Golevka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.