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(72897) 2001 KM55

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[2]
  • Follows: (72896) 2001 KA54[3]
  • Followed by: (72898) 2001 KO56[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 2001 KM55[7], 2000 EA157[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: May 22, 2001[9]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.07520166036457844[10]
  • Absolute magnitude: 13.78[11]
  • Orbital inclination: 17.24686349812933 degree[12]
  • Orbital period: 2067.301198398907 day[13]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 85.32416455417751 degree[14]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.175924866475751 astronomical unit[15]
  • Apoapsis: 3.414759689627879 astronomical unit[16]
  • Periapsis: 2.937090043323622 astronomical unit[17]
  • Argument of periapsis: 79.66468854900819 degree[18]
  • Mean anomaly: 174.3711587769031 degree[19]
  • Diameter: 10.995 km[20]
  • Albedo: 0.058[21]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[22]
  • Time of periapsis: 2459999.173040262 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. 23w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → asteroid
    Mean anomaly → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+174.3711587769031'}
    Orbital eccentricity → {'amount': '+0.07520166036457844'}
    Minor planet center body id → 72897
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 13.8"
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