54509-YORP asteroid, potential Earth impactor

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Author name
SebastianSosnowski
Source
Sketchfab
Polygon Count
9,934
Release Date
2022-08-15
License
CC BY 4.0
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Model based on real, very low-res radar datas. All features but main asteroid shape was added and are my own concept. Model is free and You can take a look on my workflow sctreens (from radar shape image to Hi-poly) here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X1wyXl From wiki: 54509 YORP, provisional designation 2000 PH5, is an Earth co-orbital asteroid discovered on 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) in Socorro. Measurements of the rotation rate of this object provided the first observational evidence of the YORP effect, hence the name of the asteroid. The asteroid's rate of rotation is increasing at the rate of (2.0 ± 0.2) × 10−4 deg/day2 which between 2001 and 2005 caused the asteroid to rotate about 250° further than its spin rate in 2001 would have predicted. The simulations ruled out the possibility that close encounters with the Earth have been the cause of the increased spin rate. On 2 January 2104, asteroid YORP will pass 0.00526 AU (787,000 km) from Earth.