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2018 LA

small asteroid which entered Earth's atmosphere in June 2018
Place Earth Crossing Asteroid Q54726695

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
Earth-crossing asteroid (?–2018), former entity[3]
More facts +16
Absolute magnitude
30.55[8]
Apoapsis
1.97081195841706[13]
Argument of periapsis
256.0486906916353[15]
Discoverer or inventor
Mount Lemmon Survey[2]
Epoch
June 2, 2018[17]
Longitude of ascending node
71.86960533671854[11]
Mean anomaly
326.7297817374431[16]
Minor planet group
Apollo asteroid[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.4318612059805853[7]
Orbital inclination
4.297409951890678[9]
Orbital period
589.8136592751157[10]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[5]
Periapsis
0.7819855196979832[14]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
1.376398739057521[12]
Time of discovery or invention
June 2, 2018[6]
Time of periapsis
2458326.00896994[18]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
2018 LA-orbit.png ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11f651v097
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
3825058
Minor Planet Center body ID
2018 LA

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Discoverer or inventor 1
Mount Lemmon Survey
Epoch 1
June 2, 2018
Instance of 1
former entity
Minor planet group 1
Apollo asteroid
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

2018 LA is an Earth-crossing asteroid[1].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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