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(69102) 2003 BB73

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[2]
  • Follows: (69101) 2003 BJ72[3]
  • Followed by: (69103) 2003 BG80[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2003 BB73[7], 2002 AW187[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: January 28, 2003[9]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.07530828113189254[10]
  • Absolute magnitude: 14.72[11]
  • Orbital inclination: 10.49591834189566 degree[12]
  • Orbital period: 1999.694123257054 day[13]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 137.3749786558978 degree[14]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.10630023082323 astronomical unit[15]
  • Apoapsis: 3.340230361886129 astronomical unit[16]
  • Periapsis: 2.872370099760331 astronomical unit[17]
  • Argument of periapsis: 70.92726038830578 degree[18]
  • Mean anomaly: 7.89182558421977 degree[19]
  • Diameter: 4.566 km[20]
  • Albedo: 0.147[21]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[22]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460956.663229882 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. 22w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Orbital period → {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1999.694123257054'}
    Apoapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.340230361886129'}
    Time of periapsis → {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2460956.663229882'}
    Orbital eccentricity → {'amount': '+0.07530828113189254'}
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Orbital eccentricity: 0.0749958723556405±0.0000000043764"
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