(32978) 1996 VG7
minor planet
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Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program[1]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Xinglong Station[2]
- Follows: (32977) 1996 VR4[3]
- Followed by: (32979) 1996 VH7[4]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
- Provisional designation: 1996 VG7[7]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 9, 1996[8]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.22[9], 0.2206200[10], 0.222663310072111[11]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.3[12], 14.48[13]
- Orbital inclination: 18.33737 degree[14], 18.33722775313545 degree[15]
- Orbital period: 4.57 years[16], 1666.129166681626 day[17]
- Longitude of ascending node: 212.43060 degree[18], 212.3792974081025 degree[19]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.7535353 astronomical unit[20], 2.750469458066777 astronomical unit[21]
- Apoapsis: 3.361 astronomical unit[22], 3.362898091852171 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 2.1460505 astronomical unit[24], 2.138040824281383 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 202.25464 degree[26], 202.1504204347334 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 211.97475 degree[28], 96.68334671209968 degree[29]
- Diameter: 7.381 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.071[31]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[32]
- Time of periapsis: 2460553.0362669737 Julian day[33]