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51178 Geraintjones

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Anderson Mesa Station[2]
  • Named after: Geraint H. Jones[3]
  • Follows: (51177) 2000 HM70[4]
  • Followed by: (51179) 2000 HM71[5]
  • Minor planet group: outer asteroid belt[6]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
  • Provisional designation: 2000 HX70[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: April 26, 2000[9]
  • Significant event: naming[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.2346864160355401[11]
  • Absolute magnitude: 12.69[12]
  • Orbital inclination: 10.05984449813055 degree[13]
  • Orbital period: 2876.858438585623 day[14]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 78.58730902377906 degree[15]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.958646394186408 astronomical unit[16]
  • Apoapsis: 4.887686928790031 astronomical unit[17]
  • Periapsis: 3.029605859582786 astronomical unit[18]
  • Argument of periapsis: 282.3913980665072 degree[19]
  • Mean anomaly: 338.3565191205353 degree[20]
  • Diameter: 18.513 km[21]
  • Albedo: 0.057[22]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[23]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461173.4589739125 Julian day[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . iau.org. iau.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . iau.org. iau.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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    Site of astronomical discovery → Anderson Mesa Station
    Albedo → {'amount': '+0.057'}
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    Mean anomaly → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+338.3565191205353'}
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