Minor planet 415746
// Amor near-Earth asteroid
// Data-inspired illustration— not a photograph
Uncommon11%
- ◆ Type
- Amor near-Earth asteroid
- ◆ Orbital period
- 3.4 yearsmeasured ±
- ◆ Orbits
- Sun
- ◆ First recorded
- 2000
// Time capsule
Sunlight takes about 19 minutes to travel from the Sun out to it.
◆ Discovery points61,147
Top 4% for a Solar System body13
- +22,601EpicNear-Earth Objectan orbit that brings it close to Earth
- +22,601EpicWatched CloselyNear-Earth asteroids are tracked closely — their orbits are computed decades ahead to check that none is on a collision course.
- +4,143RareInner Solar Systemorbits closer to the Sun than the asteroid belt's mid-point (within ~2.8 AU)
- +2,940RareBy the Numbersidentified purely by a number, with no name at all
- +2,030RareSmaller Than the MoonIf you gathered every asteroid in the belt into one body, it would be smaller than the Moon.
- +2,030RareMostly EmptyAsteroids are spread so thinly that a spacecraft can cross the entire belt without any special aiming — the odds of hitting one are tiny.
- +1,094RareMinor Bodyan asteroid, trojan, centaur or trans-Neptunian object — not a planet, moon or comet
- +909Uncommon0.2% of the RestEverything in the Solar System put together, apart from the Sun, adds up to less than 0.2% of its mass. The Sun is almost the whole story.
- +909UncommonIt WandersUnlike the stars, this object doesn't sit still on the sky — night to night it drifts against the background, which is exactly how the ancients spotted the planets.
- +909UncommonOne Family, One CloudEverything here — Sun, planets, moons, this body — condensed from a single spinning cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago.
- +479Uncommon21st-Century Discoverydiscovered in 2000 or later
- +392CommonSpace-Age Discoveryfirst catalogued in 1957 or later
- +110CommonCatalogue Designationknown only by a survey or catalogue label, never given a name