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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Cluster of (57738) 2001 UZ160

The cluster of (57738) was identified in Pravec and Vokrouhlicky, Icarus 204 (2009) 580–588, http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/pravecvokrouhlicky2009.pdf

According to http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidpairs.html the following asteroids are "suspected" pairs associated to (57738) 2001 UZ160 (and, if I understand a note correctly, some of them might be more specifically related to 436620 (2011 LF12) a very stable member of the same cluster):

18777 Hobson (1999 JA41)
363118 (2001 NH14)
381414 (2008 JK37)
436620 (2011 LF12)
450571 (2006 JH35)
465404 (2008 HQ46)
520394 (2014 JJ10)
2014 HH103
2014 OJ66
2015 KA91

I saw this msg https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/28579 from Petr Pravec where he explained that - at that time - they had yet to check whether 18777 Hobson is also a member of the cluster.

After "googling for a while" ,I was not able to find a reference to the following three asteroids, with orbital parameters similar to 436620 (2011 LF12):
(2015 HV138)
(2007 EH116)
(2015 OP104)

Do they also belong to the cluster of (57738) 2001 UZ160?

Kind Regards,
Alessandro Odasso

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