2009 VA

Summary

2009 VA is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 2009 VA is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey^[3].
• 2009 VA's image is recorded as Asteroid 2009 VA.png^[4].
• 2009 VA's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 2009 VA's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[6].
• 2009 VA's instance of is recorded as near-Earth asteroid^[7].
• 2009 VA's minor planet group is recorded as Apollo asteroid^[8].
• 2009 VA's Commons category is recorded as 2009 VA^[9].
• 2009 VA's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 2009 VA's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2009-11-06T00:00:00Z^[11].
• 2009 VA's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09gfggq^[12].
• 2009 VA's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 3474857^[13].
• 2009 VA's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.35735'}^[14].
• 2009 VA's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3574007605683017'}^[15].
• 2009 VA's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+28.58'}^[16].
• 2009 VA's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+7.54'}^[17].
• 2009 VA's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+7.542104613313825'}^[18].
• 2009 VA's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+623.3269113300261'}^[19].
• 2009 VA's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+224.5419648340493'}^[20].
• 2009 VA's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.428055108089426'}^[21].
• 2009 VA's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.938443089854036'}^[22].
• 2009 VA's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.9176671263248171'}^[23].
• 2009 VA's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+223.9911168199338'}^[24].
• 2009 VA's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+338.9489925626127'}^[25].
• 2009 VA's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 2009 VA^[26].
• 2009 VA's epoch is recorded as November 6, 2009^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid^[5], near-Earth object^[6], and near-Earth asteroid^[7].

Why It Matters

2009 VA ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]