594913 ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim (provisional designation 2020 AV2) is a large near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 4 January 2020.
[4] ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey at the Palomar Observatory on 4 January 2020, by astronomers Bryce Bolin, Frank Masci, and Quanzhi Ye.
[1][5] The discovery formed part of a campaign for detecting interior-Earth asteroids (Atiras) using the wide-field ZTF camera on the 1.22-meter Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory.
[11] Because of this, inner-Venusian asteroids could only be observed within a short time frame, hence why the ZTF camera was used since it can effectively detect transient objects.
[1] The discovery of ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim was reported by astronomer Bryce Bolin, and was subsequently listed on the Minor Planet Center's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) on 4 January 2020.
[8] The Minor Planet Center (MPC) gave it the provisional designation 2020 AV2 on 8 January 2020, after follow-up observations sufficiently determined its orbit.
[2] ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim is technically classified as a near-Earth object under the Atira classification, though the asteroid's minimum orbit intersection distance from Earth is 0.346 AU (51.8 million km).
[12] Near-Earth asteroids transitioning into the Vatira region often have unstable, short-term orbits due to frequent gravitational perturbations by Venus and Mercury.
Within the Vatira region, the Kozai resonance causes the orbital inclinations and eccentricities of asteroids to oscillate over several millions of years.
The low probability of detection may imply an additional source of ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim asteroids in the inner Solar System such as within the orbit of Mercury.
[18][5] Visible and near-infrared spectroscopy by the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in 2020 suggests that ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim has a reddish surface that is olivine-rich, based on the presence of a 1 μm absorption feature characteristic of S-type asteroids.
[25] The absorption features in ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim's spectrum appear to be intermediate between the S-type and A-type spectral classes, hence it is classified as an Sa-type asteroid.