26417 Michaelgord
asteroid
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Summary
26417 Michaelgord is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[4]
- Follows: (26416) 1999 XM84[5]
- Followed by: (26418) 1999 XP94[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1997 AY24[9], 1999 XO87[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 7, 1999[11]
- Significant event: naming[12]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06[13], 0.0578161[14], 0.05812118470961453[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.8[16], 14.94[17]
- Orbital inclination: 6.08258 degree[18], 6.087453512088485 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 3.39 years[20], 1237.72952411151 day[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 252.12614 degree[22], 252.0081044799124 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.2565595 astronomical unit[24], 2.25606469364868 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.387 astronomical unit[26], 2.387189846425075 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.1260941 astronomical unit[28], 2.124939540872285 astronomical unit[29]
- Argument of periapsis: 318.61496 degree[30], 319.6357100934629 degree[31]
- Mean anomaly: 26.36964 degree[32], 119.6987000491679 degree[33]
- Diameter: 2.325 km[34]
- Albedo: 0.472[35]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[36]
- Time of periapsis: 2460588.9594026427 Julian day[37]
Why It Matters
26417 Michaelgord has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]