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(68470) 2001 SP266

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Summary

(68470) 2001 SP266 is an asteroid[1]. (68470) 2001 SP266 is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: William Kwong Yu Yeung[3]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Desert Eagle Observatory[4]
  • Follows: (68469) 2001 SC253[5]
  • Followed by: (68471) 2001 ST276[6]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
  • Provisional designation: 2001 SP266[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 25, 2001[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.04527158976694545[11]
  • Absolute magnitude: 15.75[12]
  • Orbital inclination: 0.6620145976483268 degree[13]
  • Orbital period: 1667.365550317421 day[14]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 343.534968353638 degree[15]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.75182998282909 astronomical unit[16]
  • Apoapsis: 2.876409700920109 astronomical unit[17]
  • Periapsis: 2.627250264738071 astronomical unit[18]
  • Argument of periapsis: 97.04831411800305 degree[19]
  • Mean anomaly: 56.30291599799612 degree[20]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[21]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460739.7290485627 Julian day[22]

References

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Site of astronomical discovery → Desert Eagle Observatory
    Jpl small-body database spk-id → 20068470
    Followed by → (68471) 2001 ST276
    Orbital period → {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1667.365550317421'}
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Orbital eccentricity: 0.04531898132057025±0.0000000059722"
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