Its name has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka was studied simultaneously by three radar observatories across the world: Goldstone in California, Evpatoria in Ukraine (sometimes written Yevpatoriya), and Kashima in Japan. 'Golevka' comes from the first few letters of each observatory's name.
Golevka is a small object, measuring 0.6 1.4 km. The radar observations revealed that it has a very strange, angular shape that looks different from almost every angle. In 2003 the Yarkovsky effect was first observed at work by high precision radar observations of Golevka. This helped evaluate the asteroid's density (2.7 0.5 g/cm ) and mass (2.10 1011 kg).
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The spectrum of 6489Golevka was originally interpreted as a V-type, comparable to the class of what is thought to be achondritic asteroids associated with 4 Vesta.
6489Golevka was observed with NSFCAM on the NASA IRTF telescope on the nights of June 15 and 16 1999, obtaining several spectra.
Asteroid6489Golevka is strikingly irregular and angular.
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