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Score breakdown
· 7 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Brilliantly reflective surface+10
Crosses Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Tiny fragment (<1 km)+4
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Stony asteroid+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score35
15 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
🤏Tiny fragment (<1 km)· +4
🎯Crosses Earth's orbit· +8
🔢Catalogue designation only
🏛️Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit· +4
🪙Brilliantly reflective surface· +10
🧗Stony asteroid· +4
✨ Trivia
What makes it special
🎯It crosses our path. Its orbit genuinely intersects Earth's track around the Sun. The two paths cross; only the timing keeps them apart.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 0.8 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 1.2 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.8 and 1.41 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 5 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.32 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
By the numbers
📐Size. Roughly 524 metres across.
Properties
albedo
0.444
aphelion au
1.41
designation
22099
diameter km
0.524
eccentricity
0.2764
full name
22099 (2000 EX106)
h mag
18.09
inclination
9.85
mean motion deg day
0.8489
moid au
0.168
name
(22099) 2000 EX106
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.799
rotation period h
6.334
semi major au
1.105
spec taxonomy
S:
spect
S:
About (22099) 2000 EX106
(22099) 2000 EX106 is a rare neo. It has spectral type S: and swings within 0.799 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
Its orbit genuinely intersects Earth's track around the Sun. The two paths cross; only the timing keeps them apart.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (22099) 2000 EX106 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why (22099) 2000 EX106 is a rare neo
(22099) 2000 EX106 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Near-Earth object, Tiny fragment (<1 km), Crosses Earth's orbit, Catalogue designation only, Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit, Brilliantly reflective surface and Stony asteroid — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.