Talk:1998 KY26

possible second moon
In my celestia program on my computer, I did some reserch on this asteroid. I changed the time on the program to 12 Jun, 2130 and I found out that earth's gravity has a probability of pulling it in orbit starting at ~455,463 km. Though it might orbit alot earlear. Fquantum talk 18:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Quasi-satellite
Every 11 years, the orbit of KY26 seems to pass the earth's orbit(near earth) in 5.3 weeks. The last time it did it was in 1996. The next time will be in 2009, when it will indirectly orbit the earth for one time. Dispite the approach in 2020, the earth's gravitational well might slow down the orbit enough to capture it in direct orbit then we will have a second moon. -- Fquantum talk 19:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Possible Impact
This planetoid has a 1 in 7.2 million possible chance of impacting in 2009. But what if the moon's gravity breaks up part of the apollo's surface and slingshots the planetesimals, and KY26, back to earth, with the possibilaty of hitting one of more famous buildings, or even cause a volcano eruption? Wouldn't that be terrible? Fquantum talk 16:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Use in a trip to Mars
According to simulations done in ORSA this asteroid will pass very near the Earth in 2013, then travel around the sun once, then on its next apogee it will pass near Mars (in 2015). A robotic spacecraft could rendezvous with in April 2013, ride it around the sun mining water and whatever else until November 2014, then execute a burn to rendezvous with Mars in mid 2015. A similar opportunity exists in except that the middle portion of the trip (riding with the asteroid) would only be about 3 months rather than ~1.5 years. I don't know if this would constitute original research so I haven't added it to the article yet. Let me know if you think it would be OK to add this. -AndrewBuck (talk) 04:54, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

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Outdated and unreferenced
The object's rotation period of only 10.7 minutes means that it has one of the shortest sidereal days of any known object in the Solar System -- This information was added in 2009, without a citation. It may have been true at the time, but we now know dozens of objects with shorter rotation periods than this. Its rotation period is not unusual for objects of its size (of which almost none were known in 2009). The section should either be updated, or the statement be removed. Renerpho (talk) 02:32, 17 September 2020 (UTC)