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(79585) 1998 RD16

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Summary

(79585) 1998 RD16 is an asteroid[1].

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program[2]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Xinglong Station[3]
  • Follows: 1997 EE6[4]
  • Followed by: 1998 RB17[5]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[6]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
  • Provisional designation: 1998 RD16[8], 2000 DB44[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 14, 1998[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: {'amount': '+0.07884866425266149'}[11]
  • Absolute magnitude: {'amount': '+16.28'}[12]
  • Orbital inclination: 8.177626539696096 degree[13]
  • Orbital period: 1338.904061422169 day[14]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 158.8289316059698 degree[15]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.377391403830391 astronomical unit[16]
  • Apoapsis: 2.564845540428177 astronomical unit[17]
  • Periapsis: 2.189937267232605 astronomical unit[18]
  • Argument of periapsis: 220.397568603004 degree[19]
  • Mean anomaly: 138.5352331169252 degree[20]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[21]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460485.262815916 Julian day[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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