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17446 Mopaku

asteroid
Place Asteroid Q1632878

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +23
Follows
17445 Avatcha[4]
Followed by
17447 Heindl[5]
Absolute magnitude
+13.5, +13.6[16][17]
Albedo
+0.252
Apoapsis
+2.592, +2.589187934178323
Argument of periapsis
+313.89719, +315.5641053063472
Diameter
+4.82
Discoverer or inventor
Rajgopalan Rajamohan[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
+203.67911, +203.6074461406271[22][23]
Mean anomaly
+234.01765, +136.9534279055055
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.07 (0.07–0.07, n=3)[13][14][15]
Orbital inclination
+5.98108, +5.987198297832277[18][19]
Orbital period
+3.79, +1383.335480050625[20][21]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[7]
Periapsis
+2.2664601, +2.27021287554281
Provisional designation
1990 BC2, 1996 VC30, 1998 FP62[8][9][10]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
+2.4291750, +2.429700404860566
Significant event
naming[12]
Site of astronomical discovery
Vainu Bappu Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
January 23, 1990[11]
Time of periapsis
+2460474.2429557326
🏷️ Also known as
en 17446 Mopaku en Mopaku de (17446) Mopaku fa سیارک 17446 fa سیارک ۱۷۴۴۶ ja モパク ja 17446 モパク ru (17446) 1990 BC2 ru 1990 BC2 ru 1996 VC30 ru 1998 FP62 ru Mopaku zh 小行星17446
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/0cc6kp5
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20017446
Minor Planet Center body ID
17446

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🔗 Connections
Discoverer or inventor 1
Rajgopalan Rajamohan
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
17447 Heindl
Followed by (predecessor) 1
17447 Heindl
Follows 1
17445 Avatcha
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
17445 Avatcha
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Vainu Bappu Observatory
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Summary

17446 Mopaku is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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