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(359957) 2012 BY50

Summary

(359957) 2012 BY50 is an asteroid[1].

Key Facts

  • (359957) 2012 BY50 is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Survey[2].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's instance of is recorded as asteroid[3].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Mount Lemmon Observatory[4].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's minor planet group is recorded as Jupiter trojan[5].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's minor planet group is recorded as Greek camp trojan asteroid[6].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's provisional designation is recorded as 2012 BY50[8].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2010-12-06T00:00:00Z[9].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20359957[10].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1015213252727238'}[11].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's Lagrangian point is recorded as L4-Jupiter-Sun[12].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+14.0'}[13].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+8.72878547840181'}[14].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+4322.17890492004'}[15].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+127.9804150788087'}[16].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+5.192815291341569'}[17].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+5.719996781615031'}[18].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+4.665633801068108'}[19].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+359.8621198975014'}[20].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+39.57376599095616'}[21].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12z6525p7[22].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 359957[23].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's epoch is recorded as May 5, 2025[24].
  • (359957) 2012 BY50's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2460325.375287349'}[25].

Body

Designation and Status

(359957) 2012 BY50's instance of is recorded as asteroid[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.org. minorplanetcenter.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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