10563 Izhdubar
asteroid
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Summary
10563 Izhdubar is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Carolyn S. Shoemaker[3], Eugene Merle Shoemaker[4]
- Instance of: near-Earth object[5]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[6]
- Follows: (10562) 1993 UB1[7]
- Followed by: (10564) 1993 XQ2[8]
- Minor planet group: Apollo asteroid[9]
- Commons category: 10563 Izhdubar[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: 1991 VJ14[12], 1993 WD[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 19, 1993[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: Q-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2664[17], 0.2663156[18], 0.266188441258999[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 16.8[20], 16.94[21]
- Orbital inclination: 63.46410 degree[22], 63.46533578714227 degree[23]
- Orbital period: 1.01 years[24], 368.9830261316715 day[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 56.56402 degree[26], 56.5566656202412 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 1.0068801 astronomical unit[28], 1.006789415149551 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 1.275 astronomical unit[30], 1.274785120244269 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 0.7387322 astronomical unit[32], 0.7387937100548325 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 132.20827 degree[34], 132.1949613084526 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 315.67752 degree[36], 137.0745534637406 degree[37]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[38]
- Time of periapsis: 2460860.005045715 Julian day[39]
Why It Matters
10563 Izhdubar has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]