3362 Khufu

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Khufu takes about 359.47 days to orbit the Sun. ^{[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3362]} ]

3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

Khufu crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus and makes close approaches to Mercury as well. From 1900 to 2100 it drew nearer than 30 Gm (0.2 AU) to Mercury 26, Venus 27, Earth 20, and Mars 11 times.

ee also

*List of asteroids/3001–4000
* Venus-crosser asteroid
* Mars-crosser asteroid

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3362 JPL Small-Body Database Browser]
* [http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/ calculations by SOLEX ]