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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Crosses Earth's orbit+8
Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Stony asteroid+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score25
9 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
🎯Crosses Earth's orbit· +8
🔢Catalogue designation only
⚱️Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit· +8
🧗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 Aten-class object, spending most of its time inside Earth's orbit and crossing ours from the sunward side — which makes this family wretchedly hard to spot against the daylight.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 0.29 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mercury.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 227 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.3 and 1.16 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.2× the height of Mount Everest.
Standing on it
🔥Sunlight there. At closest approach the Sun beats down about 11.5 times harder than it ever does on Earth.
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.84 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
aphelion au
1.16
designation
99907
diameter km
1.4
eccentricity
0.5947
full name
99907 (1989 VA)
h mag
17.96
inclination
28.8
mean motion deg day
1.585
moid au
0.154
name
(99907) 1989 VA
number only
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.295
rotation period h
2.5246
semi major au
0.7284
spec taxonomy
Sq
spect
Sq
About (99907) 1989 VA
(99907) 1989 VA is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type Sq and swings within 0.295 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, (99907) 1989 VA 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 (99907) 1989 VA is an uncommon neo
(99907) 1989 VA scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Crosses Earth's orbit, Catalogue designation only, Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit 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.