← Back to dex - Darker than charcoal +10
- Barely turning (over 100 hours) +8
- Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system +6
- Near-Earth object +5
- Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit +4
- Catalogue designation only +0
Total score 33
1 more point to reach Rare.
Badges
- 🌠 Near-Earth object · +5
- 🔢 Catalogue designation only
- 🏛️ Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit · +4
- 🐌 Barely turning (over 100 hours) · +8
- 🕶️ Darker than charcoal · +10
- 🖤 Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system · +6
✨ Trivia
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 1.01 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mars.
- 🔁 One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 3.4 years.
- 🥏 How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.01 and 3.5 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
- 🧱 Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.5× the height of Mount Everest.
By the numbers
- 📐 Size. Roughly 4.2 km across.
What's in a name
- 🔢 Designation. Known only by its catalogue designation — no name yet.
Properties
- albedo
- 0.022
- aphelion au
- 3.5
- designation
- 152679
- diameter km
- 4.167
- eccentricity
- 0.5524
- full name
- 152679 (1998 KU2)
- h mag
- 16.55
- inclination
- 4.93
- mean motion deg day
- 0.2915
- moid au
- 0.0602
- name
- (152679) 1998 KU2
- number only
- yes
- orbit class
- APO
- perihelion au
- 1.008
- rotation period h
- 125
- semi major au
- 2.253
- spec taxonomy
- Cb
- spect
- Cb
About (152679) 1998 KU2
(152679) 1998 KU2 is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type Cb and swings within 1.008 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (152679) 1998 KU2 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 (152679) 1998 KU2 is an uncommon neo
(152679) 1998 KU2 scores 33 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Near-Earth object, Catalogue designation only, Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit, Barely turning (over 100 hours), Darker than charcoal and Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system — 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.