797489
797489 belongs to the Apollo group of near-Earth asteroids, whose orbits cross the path of Earth; with a semi-major axis of 1.35 AU it takes 1.57 yr to circle the Sun.
Orbit and dynamics
The path is an ellipse reaching 0.452 AU from the Sun at perihelion and 2.248 AU at aphelion, a radial span of 1.796 AU.
Applying Kepler's third law to a = 1.35 AU gives an orbital period of 1.57 yr, or about 573 days.
The high eccentricity (0.665) produces a strongly elongated orbit, so the object spends most of its time far from the Sun.
The orbital plane is tilted 7.3° relative to the ecliptic.
By the vis-viva equation its orbital speed rises to 57.2 km/s at perihelion and falls to 11.5 km/s at aphelion.
Because q < 1 AU and Q > 1 AU, this orbit geometrically intersects the region of Earth's orbit.
Size and surface
No direct size measurement is available; from an absolute magnitude of H = 20.33 and an assumed geometric albedo of 0.14, the diameter works out to roughly 0.31 km.
Observation record and orbit quality
The current orbit solution is based on 221 observations and has a weighted RMS residual of 0.5116 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
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
No close approaches to Earth are currently on record for this object.
