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(99979) 1981 EE16

asteroid
Place asteroid Q28518388

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
asteroid
Follows
(99978) 1981 ER13[4]
Followed by
(99980) 1981 ER18[5]
Absolute magnitude
16.77[11]
Apoapsis
3.00145296443804 astronomical unit[16]
Argument of periapsis
306.0410049373522 degree[18]
Discoverer or inventor
Schelte J. Bus[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025[20]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Longitude of ascending node
264.0936392644279 degree[14]
Mean anomaly
351.0439142214854 degree[19]
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1808599243988905[10]
Orbital inclination
3.341543916803511 degree[12]
Orbital period
1,480.124215394397 day[13]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[7]
Periapsis
2.082050849049256 astronomical unit[17]
Provisional designation
1981 EE16[8]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.541751906743648 astronomical unit[15]
Site of astronomical discovery
Siding Spring Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
March 1, 1981[9]
Time of periapsis
2,461,037.3225539885 Julian day[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en (99979) 1981 EE16
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11c2nhhgh7
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20099979
Minor Planet Center body ID
99979
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "MinorPlanet99979Provisional1981EE16"]

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Summary

(99979) 1981 EE16 is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . 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 . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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