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(496018) 2008 NU

Summary

(496018) 2008 NU is an asteroid[1].

Key Facts

  • (496018) 2008 NU is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey[2].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's instance of is recorded as asteroid[3].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[4].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Catalina Station[5].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's minor planet group is recorded as Amor asteroid[6].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's provisional designation is recorded as 2008 NU[8].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2008-07-01T00:00:00Z[9].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20496018[10].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.5306035848870703'}[11].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+17.55'}[12].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+10.71782327189136'}[13].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1662.697959600535'}[14].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25235', 'amount': '+6.47'}[15].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+289.8080354971742'}[16].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.746691970838529'}[17].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+4.204096577145985'}[18].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.289287364531073'}[19].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+19.66675945735637'}[20].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+253.3101949189688'}[21].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12z653bty[22].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 496018[23].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's epoch is recorded as May 5, 2025[24].
  • (496018) 2008 NU's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2461293.258114496'}[25].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid[3] and near-Earth object[4].

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. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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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