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Aten asteroid

family of Earth-crossing asteroids that have an orbital semi-major axis less than that of the Earth (a < 1 AU) but an aphelion distance greater than the Earth's perihelion distance (Q > 0.983 AU)
Class type of: Earth-crossing asteroid Q1048390

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
asteroid family
Subclass of
Earth-crossing asteroid
Discoverer or inventor
Eleanor F. Helin[3]
Has list
list of numbered Aten asteroids[6]
Named after
2062 Aten[4]
Time of discovery or invention
January 7, 1976[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Aten-class asteroid en Aten asteroid ar كويكبات آتن ar كويكب آتن cs Atenova skupina cs Ateni da Aten-asteroide de Aten-Asteroid de Aten-Typ el Αστεροειδείς Ατών es Asteroide Aten es Asteroide Aton es Asteroide Atón es Asteroides Aton es Asteroides Atón fa سیارک آتنی fi Aten-asteroidi fi Aten-asteroidit fr astéroïde Aten fr astéroïde Aton
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Minor Planets - Aten.svg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/Aten-asteroid
Freebase ID
/m/0290ms
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
70280
SpaceReference.org celestial object ID
category/aten-class-asteroids
Topic's main category
Category:Aten asteroids
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID
110

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🔗 Connections
← Minor planet group 60
99942 Apophis, 2062 Aten, 367943 Duende, 2340 Hathor, 2100 Ra-Shalom, 3554 Amun, 3362 Khufu, (706765) 2010 TK7 +52 more
Discoverer or inventor 1
Eleanor F. Helin
Instance of 1
asteroid family
Named after 1
2062 Aten
Subtypes 1
Atira asteroid
Topic's main category 1
Category:Aten asteroids
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Aten asteroids
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Summary

Aten asteroid is an asteroid family[1]. It is a type of Earth-crossing asteroid[2].

Related Entities

Eleanor F. Helin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · ~2026-54193-84 · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → list of numbered Aten asteroids
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has list: list of numbered Aten asteroids"
  2. 17w ago · Sanjeev bot bot · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Topic's main category → Category:Aten asteroids
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    Subclass of → Earth-crossing asteroid
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