3361 Orpheus - Baltimore, Maryland
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flyingmoose
N 39° 15.850 W 076° 34.929
18S E 363506 N 4347285
Located south of the entrance to Fort McHenry.
Waymark Code: WM1468X
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2021
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Apollo Asteroid 3361 is named after Orpheus who was a Greek known as a musician, poet and prophet. He is also the inspiration to the memorial in honor of Francis Scott Key who penned the National Anthem for United States of America while in the waters outside of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The Statue stands alone at one end of an open field and a grove of trees to the west.
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From Wikipedia
3361 Orpheus (1982 HR) is an Apollo asteroid that was discovered on 24 April 1982 by Carlos Torres at Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station. Its eccentric orbit crosses that of Mars and Earth, and approaches Venus as well. From 1900 to 2100 it passes closer than 30 Gm to Venus 11, Earth 33, and Mars 14 times. It passed by Earth at a distance of about 0.03 AU (4.5 million km; 12 LD) in 1937, 1978 and 1982, and will again in 2021 and 2025.
3361 Orpheus is a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) because its minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) is less than 0.05 AU (7.5 million km; 19 LD) and its diameter is greater than 140 meters. The Earth-MOID is 0.0139 AU (2,080,000 km; 1,290,000 mi). With an observation arc of 36 years, the orbit is well-determined for the next several hundred years.
The orbital solution includes non-gravitational forces.