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(68674) 2002 CV117

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: William Kwong Yu Yeung[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Desert Eagle Observatory[2]
  • Follows: (68673) 2002 CD115[3]
  • Followed by: (68675) 2002 CV123[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2002 CV117[7], 1999 JK114[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: February 12, 2002[9]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1460411417129146[10]
  • Absolute magnitude: 16.12[11]
  • Orbital inclination: 0.6524899301096725 degree[12]
  • Orbital period: 1274.714854169824 day[13]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 266.1848501118868 degree[14]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.300786991209507 astronomical unit[15]
  • Apoapsis: 2.636796550243965 astronomical unit[16]
  • Periapsis: 1.964777432175049 astronomical unit[17]
  • Argument of periapsis: 31.92036443067245 degree[18]
  • Mean anomaly: 169.4823391953567 degree[19]
  • Diameter: 1.642 km[20]
  • Albedo: 0.164[21]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[22]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460400.3842908563 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. 24w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → William Kwong Yu Yeung
    Orbital inclination → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.6524899301096725'}
    Instance of → asteroid
    Semi-major axis of an orbit → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.300786991209507'}
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 16.11"
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