172985 Ericmelin

Summary

172985 Ericmelin is an asteroid^[1].

Key Facts

• 172985 Ericmelin is credited with the discovery of Marc Buie^[2].
• 172985 Ericmelin's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].
• 172985 Ericmelin's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory^[4].
• 172985 Ericmelin's follows is recorded as (172984) 2006 HK89^[5].
• 172985 Ericmelin's followed by is recorded as (172986) 2006 JE36^[6].
• 172985 Ericmelin's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[7].
• 172985 Ericmelin's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 172985 Ericmelin's provisional designation is recorded as 2007 VG111^[9].
• 172985 Ericmelin's provisional designation is recorded as 2006 HW147^[10].
• 172985 Ericmelin's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2006-04-27T00:00:00Z^[11].
• 172985 Ericmelin's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20172985^[12].
• 172985 Ericmelin's significant event is recorded as naming^[13].
• 172985 Ericmelin's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.19815537991611'}^[14].
• 172985 Ericmelin's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+18.22'}^[15].
• 172985 Ericmelin's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.591347105767911'}^[16].
• 172985 Ericmelin's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1387.37013968173'}^[17].
• 172985 Ericmelin's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+287.3284834117449'}^[18].
• 172985 Ericmelin's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.43442244815101'}^[19].
• 172985 Ericmelin's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.91681635324068'}^[20].
• 172985 Ericmelin's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.95202854306134'}^[21].
• 172985 Ericmelin's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+53.29784777173753'}^[22].
• 172985 Ericmelin's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+327.1380592963405'}^[23].
• 172985 Ericmelin's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11h2hh7m9d^[24].
• 172985 Ericmelin's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 172985^[25].
• 172985 Ericmelin's epoch is recorded as November 21, 2025^[26].

Body

Designation and Status

172985 Ericmelin's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].