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(68920) 2002 LT3

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[2]
  • Follows: (68919) 2002 LL3[3]
  • Followed by: (68921) 2002 LQ6[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2002 LT3[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: June 3, 2002[8]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.08782638847297848[9]
  • Absolute magnitude: 15.26[10]
  • Orbital inclination: 14.58920741018708 degree[11]
  • Orbital period: 1595.383588830897 day[12]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 171.1178617893119 degree[13]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.672049272695197 astronomical unit[14]
  • Apoapsis: 2.906725710137865 astronomical unit[15]
  • Periapsis: 2.437372835252529 astronomical unit[16]
  • Argument of periapsis: 184.9868698074386 degree[17]
  • Mean anomaly: 27.23019008699033 degree[18]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[19]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460879.8261155956 Julian day[20]

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

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  1. 24w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Site of astronomical discovery → Experimental Test Site
    Orbital period → {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1595.383588830897'}
    Follows → (68919) 2002 LL3
    Discoverer or inventor → Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 15.27"
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