NY40 Orbital Information, Please

Factual Questions
1

Hi, I’ve been searching Google and I haven’t been able to find any sites that have the orbital information for the NY40 asteroid which was fated to destroy the earth by the chicken little news media.
I’m looking for its mean distance, eccentricity, inclination, ascending node, arg of pericenter, mean anomaly and epoch.

2

I think you mean 2002 NT7 not NY40. NY40 is an asteroid that will be visible around the middle of this month. I don’t recall anyone ever saying NY40 had any chance of hitting Earth.

http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/2002_ny40.html

NT7 is the one that they reported last month was going to hit the Earth in 2019. They have since made more accurate measurements and decided there is no chance of it hitting us.

http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Asteroid2002NT7-UnderWatch.html

3

And FYI. This page should have all the orbital stuff.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+NT7

4

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb_elem.html


Designation Epoch      a           e        i      
2002 NY40   52400   2.0403436 0.71024104   5.77195 

   w        Node        M         H    G   Ref
268.27639 146.85960 308.6027296 19.11 0.15 JPL 14

Num Number assigned to the asteroid or comet. Numbers are only assigned to secure short-period (<200 year) comets.
Name Name given to the numbered asteroid or comet.
Designation Unnumbered asteroid’s preliminary designation.
Epoch Epoch (Modified Julian Date) of the elements.
a (AU) Semi-major axis of the orbit (asteroids only).
q (AU) Perihelion distance (comets only).
e Eccentricity of the orbit.
i (degrees) Inclination of the orbit with respect to the J2000 ecliptic plane.
w (degrees) Argument of perihelion (J2000-Ecliptic).
Node (degrees) Longitude of the ascending node (J2000-Ecliptic).
M (degrees) Mean anomaly at epoch (asteroids only).
Tp (YYYYMMDD.DDD) Time of perihelion passage (comets only).
H (magnitude) Absolute magnitude (asteroids only).
G Magnitude slope parameter (asteroids only).
Ref Orbit solution reference. A JPL'' prefix indicate solutions generated by JPL's Solar System Dynamics Group. MPC’’ and ``MPO’’ prefixes indicate solutions generated by the Minor Planet Center.
Modified Julian Date Defined as the Julian date - 2400000.5

5

Thank you

6

According to this

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/close.html

NY40 will pass 537,000 km on Sunday, Aug. 18.