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(68812) 2002 GB56

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Anderson Mesa Station[2]
  • Follows: (68811) 2002 GD55[3]
  • Followed by: (68813) 2002 GR64[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2002 GB56[7], 1998 VX47[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: April 5, 2002[9]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.2225613670577438[10]
  • Absolute magnitude: 14.68[11]
  • Orbital inclination: 1.233047773437272 degree[12]
  • Orbital period: 2084.669607780047 day[13]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 196.2587260818953 degree[14]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.193688383963652 astronomical unit[15]
  • Apoapsis: 3.904480036655039 astronomical unit[16]
  • Periapsis: 2.482896731272265 astronomical unit[17]
  • Argument of periapsis: 116.3921426293037 degree[18]
  • Mean anomaly: 340.3912287312772 degree[19]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[20]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461114.0494708605 Julian day[21]

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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.

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  1. 24w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imported from → —
    Apoapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.904480036655039'}
    Site of astronomical discovery → Anderson Mesa Station
    Minor planet center body id → 68812
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 14.69"
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