(22678) 1998 QB42
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Summary
(22678) 1998 QB42 is an asteroid[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[3]
- Follows: (22677) 1998 QY41[4]
- Followed by: 22679 Amydavid[5]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[6]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
- Provisional designation: 1981 RQ5[8], 1998 QB42[9]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 17, 1998[10]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.09[11], 0.0905840[12], 0.08741329183933069[13]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.2[14], 14.39[15]
- Orbital inclination: 8.98287 degree[16], 8.985155350316672 degree[17]
- Orbital period: 5.63 years[18], 2058.898259283082 day[19]
- Rotation period: 21.801 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 3.98299 degree[21], 3.770318126315197 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.1645215 astronomical unit[23], 3.167312925076598 astronomical unit[24]