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(68426) 2001 RE

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[2]
  • Follows: (68425) 2001 QS329[3]
  • Followed by: 1996 TB29[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2001 RE[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 2, 2001[8]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.2180026815284221[9]
  • Absolute magnitude: 14.82[10]
  • Orbital inclination: 16.1099016061766 degree[11]
  • Orbital period: 1772.503666598907 day[12]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 158.3463310211226 degree[13]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.866327499057467 astronomical unit[14]
  • Apoapsis: 3.491194579990651 astronomical unit[15]
  • Periapsis: 2.241460418124284 astronomical unit[16]
  • Argument of periapsis: 300.0106356606271 degree[17]
  • Mean anomaly: 284.3193449357764 degree[18]
  • Diameter: 7.17 km[19]
  • Albedo: 0.045[20]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[21]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461373.1228849776 Julian day[22]

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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.

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  1. 24w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Site of astronomical discovery → Palomar Observatory
    Jpl small-body database spk-id → 20068426
    Diameter → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+7.17'}
    Followed by → 1996 TB29
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 14.83"
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