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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Brilliantly reflective surface+10
Crosses Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Stony asteroid+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score31
3 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
🎯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 0.84 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 1.4 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.84 and 1.61 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.1× the height of Mount Everest.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.76 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
By the numbers
📐Size. Roughly 1.3 km across.
Properties
albedo
0.411
aphelion au
1.61
designation
137062
diameter km
1.265
eccentricity
0.3153
full name
137062 (1998 WM)
h mag
16.76
inclination
22.51
mean motion deg day
0.7273
moid au
0.168
name
(137062) 1998 WM
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.839
rotation period h
2.58
semi major au
1.225
spec taxonomy
Sq
spect
Sq
About (137062) 1998 WM
(137062) 1998 WM is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type Sq and swings within 0.839 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, (137062) 1998 WM 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 (137062) 1998 WM is an uncommon neo
(137062) 1998 WM scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Near-Earth object, 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.