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1999 XN157

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Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[1]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[2]
  • Follows: 1999 XN155[3]
  • Followed by: 1999 XQ157[4]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[5]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
  • Provisional designation: 1999 XN157[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: December 8, 1999[8]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1139005550804323[9]
  • Absolute magnitude: 16.75[10]
  • Orbital inclination: 3.065597027655526 degree[11]
  • Orbital period: 1222.069449937934 day[12]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 167.0949318522057 degree[13]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.236994795731841 astronomical unit[14]
  • Apoapsis: 2.491789744677737 astronomical unit[15]
  • Periapsis: 1.982199846785947 astronomical unit[16]
  • Argument of periapsis: 269.9334905425844 degree[17]
  • Mean anomaly: 335.7968415451841 degree[18]
  • Diameter: 2.714 km[19]
  • Albedo: 0.05[20]
  • Epoch: June 9, 2026[21]
  • Time of periapsis: 2461282.6609459436 Julian day[22]

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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.
  21. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · LiMrBot bot · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jpl small-body database spk-id → 20080375
    Time of periapsis → {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2461282.6609459436'}
    Epoch → June 9, 2026
    Parent astronomical body → Sun
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Absolute magnitude: 16.77"
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