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2017 WJ16

2017 WJ16 is an Aten-type near-Earth asteroid whose orbit lies mostly inside that of Earth, with a semi-major axis of 0.822 AU and a period of 0.75 yr.

Aten Observations: 151
Orbital Period · P
0.75 yr
v(q)
40.8 km/s
v(Q)
26.4 km/s
Diameter · ≈
0.05 km
TJ
7.1
Eccentricity · e
0.2148

Orbit and dynamics

The path is an ellipse reaching 0.646 AU from the Sun at perihelion and 0.999 AU at aphelion, a radial span of 0.353 AU.

Applying Kepler's third law to a = 0.822 AU gives an orbital period of 0.75 yr, or about 272 days.

An eccentricity of 0.215 makes the orbit moderately elongated.

The orbital plane is tilted 5.69° relative to the ecliptic.

By the vis-viva equation its orbital speed rises to 40.8 km/s at perihelion and falls to 26.4 km/s at aphelion.

Size and surface

No direct size measurement is available; from an absolute magnitude of H = 24.45 and an assumed geometric albedo of 0.14, the diameter works out to roughly 0.05 km.

Observation record and orbit quality

The current orbit solution is based on 151 observations and has a weighted RMS residual of 0.4048 arcseconds.

Condition code U = 0 means the orbit is very well determined, leaving only a small uncertainty in the future ephemeris.

About these computed values

Orbital periods, perihelion and aphelion speeds, and diameter estimates on this page are computed by SpaceAtlas from the JPL SBDB orbital elements. They are derived quantities, not values copied from the source catalogue.

Orbital Parameters

Semi-Major Axis
0.8223 AU
Eccentricity
0.2148
Perihelion
0.646 AU
Aphelion
0.99893 AU
Inclination
5.69°
Orbital Period
— yr
Epoch
2461200.5
Mean Anomaly
327.61°

Orbit diagram

The Sun sits at the focus (orange). Earth's orbit is the grey circle at 1 AU. The red dot marks the object's position at the catalog epoch.

3D orbit (interactive)

Drag to rotate; scroll or pinch to zoom. The Sun is at the focus (orange), Earth's orbit is the grey ring at 1 AU, and the red dot marks the object's current position.

Close approaches

Predicted close approaches to Earth, from NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

Date (UTC)Miss distanceVelocity
2026-Dec-24 17:46 0.142037 AU
21248373 km
8.53 km/s
2029-Aug-03 10:57 0.309879 AU
46357309 km
7.59 km/s
2029-Dec-23 10:38 0.248935 AU
37240104 km
12.21 km/s
2032-Jul-12 18:47 0.343810 AU
51433277 km
9.85 km/s
2032-Dec-18 16:29 0.390355 AU
58396282 km
16.88 km/s
2035-Jun-23 14:19 0.362721 AU
54262303 km
11.30 km/s
2038-Jun-04 17:14 0.369249 AU
55238864 km
11.93 km/s
2041-May-17 20:45 0.365421 AU
54666256 km
11.88 km/s
2043-Nov-13 01:09 0.463358 AU
69317299 km
19.56 km/s
2044-Apr-29 18:01 0.351944 AU
52650072 km
11.09 km/s
2046-Nov-08 05:01 0.323177 AU
48346579 km
14.95 km/s
2047-Apr-10 12:14 0.325953 AU
48761930 km
9.51 km/s
2049-Nov-04 14:33 0.187874 AU
28105614 km
10.53 km/s
2050-Mar-18 16:53 0.286038 AU
42790704 km
6.95 km/s
2052-Nov-05 18:06 0.068873 AU
10303231 km
6.67 km/s
2055-Nov-20 01:34 0.007881 AU
1178946 km
4.88 km/s
2058-Dec-18 19:31 0.070692 AU
10575389 km
5.94 km/s
2061-Aug-13 10:34 0.291035 AU
43538208 km
6.29 km/s
2061-Dec-23 07:00 0.197761 AU
29584591 km
10.43 km/s
2064-Jul-19 02:16 0.334396 AU
50024901 km
9.17 km/s
2064-Dec-19 09:38 0.340315 AU
50910420 km
15.23 km/s
2067-Jun-29 20:11 0.357694 AU
53510190 km
10.90 km/s
2067-Dec-15 11:46 0.477703 AU
71463395 km
19.79 km/s
2070-Jun-12 01:05 0.368129 AU
55071250 km
11.77 km/s
2073-May-25 18:41 0.368975 AU
55197896 km
12.04 km/s
2076-May-08 05:04 0.360484 AU
53927602 km
11.62 km/s
2078-Nov-09 14:40 0.411752 AU
61597174 km
17.91 km/s
2079-Apr-22 20:19 0.344701 AU
51566580 km
10.69 km/s

Distances in astronomical units (AU) and kilometres. Source: NASA/JPL CNEOS Close Approach Data API.

Physical Parameters

Diameter
— km
Albedo
—
Density
— g/cm³
Rotation Period
— h
Absolute Magnitude
24.45

Orbit Quality

RMS
0.40477
Condition
0
Orbit ID
—
Data source: NASA JPL Small-Body Database · NASA CNEOS. Orbital periods, perihelion and aphelion speeds, and diameter estimates on this page are computed by SpaceAtlas from the JPL SBDB orbital elements. They are derived quantities, not values copied from the source catalogue.

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