3360 Syrinx

Minor Planet
name=(3360) Syrinx
discoverer=Eleanor F. Helin R. Scott Dunbar
discovery_date=November 4, 1981
designations=1981 VA
category=Apollo, Mars crosser
epoch=November 26, 2005 (JD 2453700.5)
semimajor=369.174 Gm (2.468 AU)
perihelion=94.745 Gm (0.633 AU)
aphelion=643.603 Gm (4.302 AU)
eccentricity=0.743
period=1415.980 d (3.88 a)
inclination=21.426°
asc_node=244.046°
arg_peri=62.026°
mean_anomaly=95.185°
speed=15.981 km/s
dimensions=1.8 km
mass=~8.4e|12 kg
density=2.0? g/cm³
gravity=~0.0006 m/s²
escape_velocity=~0.0011 km/s
rotation=? d
spectral_class=?
abs_mag=16.3
albedo=0.17
temperature=~174 K

(3360) Syrinx (originally designated 1981 VA) is an Apollo and Mars crosser asteroid discovered in 1981. It approaches Earth to within 40 Gm three times in the 21st century: 33 Gm in 2039, 40 Gm in 2070, and 24 Gm in 2085.

For a time, it was the lowest numbered asteroid that had not been named. Since November 2006, this distinction has been held by (3708)mpl| 1974 FV|1.

ee also

* List of asteroids

References

* [http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:Syrinx;main;main NeoDys]
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* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html JPL Horizons; telnet version is more comprehensive]