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(66886) 1999 VJ72

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Xinglong Station[2]
  • Follows: 66885 Wangxiaomo[3]
  • Followed by: (66887) 1999 VX74[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 1999 VJ72[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: November 12, 1999[8]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.2834923690981987[9]
  • Absolute magnitude: 14.56[10]
  • Orbital inclination: 7.553329868007483 degree[11]
  • Orbital period: 1687.110749825981 day[12]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 267.443675775127 degree[13]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.773512391205432 astronomical unit[14]
  • Apoapsis: 3.559781989711471 astronomical unit[15]
  • Periapsis: 1.987242792699394 astronomical unit[16]
  • Argument of periapsis: 130.9318122764053 degree[17]
  • Mean anomaly: 264.2758842623904 degree[18]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[19]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461449.1032907735 Julian day[20]

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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.

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  1. 24w ago · Peter James · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Discoverer or inventor → Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
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