2020 AV2: the first from Vatira-class asteroids
Taken by Filipp Romanov (Филипп Романов) on January 8, 2020 @
Remotely from H06 iTelescope Observatory, Mayhill
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2020 AV2: the first from Vatira-class asteroids (more information about this class: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab346c). Until 2020, no known asteroids had orbits contained within that of Venus. On 4 January 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) discovered ZTF09k5, whose aphelion distance is only 0.654 AU, which is entirely within the orbit of Venus, which never gets less than 0.718 AU from the Sun. On January 8, 2020, the asteroid was assigned the designation 2020 AV2 (MPEC 2020-A99 https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K20/K20A99.html - my observations are also included). I took 6 photos with remote telescope T21 (iTelescope.NET) from 01:07 to 01:40 UT on January 8, 2020 (300 seconds of exposure time for each photo). Images 1 and 2: stack from 6 photographs of the asteroid; image 3: asteroid track (brightness about 18 mag) of all six photos; image 4: animation from photos.
Best regards, Filipp Romanov (22 years old, amateur astronomer since 2009, discoverer of variable stars and planetary nebulae candidates, possible double stars and transients, author of two scientific papers published in scientific journals https://filipp-romanov.livejournal.com/27664.html ).
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