page_title: 2002 NY40
hierarchical_section_title: 2002 NY40
caption_attribution_description: English: Arecibo radar image of contact binary near-Earth asteroid 2002 NY40
context_page_description: 2002 NY₄₀ is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 800 meters in diameter. The contact binary with a bilobated, peanut-like shape was first observed on 14 July 2002 by the LINEAR automated system in New Mexico. On 18 August 2002, it passed Earth at a distance of 540,000 km. It was observed with adaptive optics by the Midcourse Space Experiment.
context_section_description: 2002 NY₄₀ is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 800 meters (2,600 feet) in diameter. The contact binary with a bilobated, peanut-like shape was first observed on 14 July 2002 by the LINEAR automated system in New Mexico. On 18 August 2002, it passed Earth at a distance of 540,000 km. It was observed with adaptive optics by the Midcourse Space Experiment.
caption: Radar image of 2002 NY40 taken by the Arecibo Observatory in August 2002, revealing its contact binary shape
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