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(66887) 1999 VX74

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Spacewatch[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Kitt Peak National Observatory[2]
  • Follows: (66886) 1999 VJ72[3]
  • Followed by: (66888) 1999 VE78[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 1999 VS229[7], 1999 VX74[8], 1993 FG72[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: November 5, 1999[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1319366022169657[11]
  • Absolute magnitude: 15.66[12]
  • Orbital inclination: 8.440199822312923 degree[13]
  • Orbital period: 1658.696823358549 day[14]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 192.1148785226161 degree[15]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.742283753399997 astronomical unit[16]
  • Apoapsis: 3.104091354138379 astronomical unit[17]
  • Periapsis: 2.380476152661614 astronomical unit[18]
  • Argument of periapsis: 77.3120259088522 degree[19]
  • Mean anomaly: 1.43256092027531 degree[20]
  • Diameter: 5.776 km[21]
  • Albedo: 0.028[22]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[23]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460993.899488201 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] ↑ . 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.
  24. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Orbital eccentricity → {'amount': '+0.1319366022169657'}
    Parent astronomical body → Sun
    Diameter → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+5.776'}
    Orbital period → {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1658.696823358549'}
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Periapsis: 2.380476152661614±0.000000008864 astronomical unit, from JPL"
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