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1978 VR5

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[2]
  • Follows: 2000 EX78[3]
  • Followed by: 2000 EY80[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2002 RD53[7], 2000 EQ79[8], 1978 VR5[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: March 5, 2000[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.07081998534924147[11]
  • Absolute magnitude: 14.89[12]
  • Orbital inclination: 3.154652115744629 degree[13]
  • Orbital period: 1814.928409216287 day[14]
  • Rotation period: 8.817 hour[15]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 72.2292717857388 degree[16]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.911883851213779 astronomical unit[17]
  • Apoapsis: 3.118103422895432 astronomical unit[18]
  • Periapsis: 2.705664279532127 astronomical unit[19]
  • Argument of periapsis: 263.7671131717432 degree[20]
  • Mean anomaly: 246.2177541597124 degree[21]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[22]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461574.129529 Julian day[23]

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. 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.

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  1. 21w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Apoapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.118103422895432'}
    Provisional designation → 2002 RD53, 2000 EQ79, 1978 VR5
    Jpl small-body database spk-id → 20076234
    Periapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.705664279532127'}
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 14.9"
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