← Back to dex - Crosses Earth's orbit +8
- Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system +6
- Near-Earth object +5
- Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit +4
- Steeply tilted orbit (i > 40°) +4
- Catalogue designation only +0
Total score 27
7 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- 🌠 Near-Earth object · +5
- 🎯 Crosses Earth's orbit · +8
- 🔢 Catalogue designation only
- 🏛️ Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit · +4
- 🖤 Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system · +6
- 📏 Steeply tilted orbit (i > 40°) · +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 0.98 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
- 🔁 One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 3.3 years.
- 🥏 How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.98 and 3.49 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
- 🧱 Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.4× the height of Mount Everest.
By the numbers
- 📐 Size. Roughly 3.5 km across.
What's in a name
- 🔢 Designation. Known only by its catalogue designation — no name yet.
Properties
- albedo
- 0.07
- aphelion au
- 3.49
- designation
- 276049
- diameter km
- 3.5
- eccentricity
- 0.5611
- full name
- 276049 (2002 CE26)
- h mag
- 16.64
- inclination
- 47.29
- mean motion deg day
- 0.2954
- moid au
- 0.0959
- name
- (276049) 2002 CE26
- number only
- yes
- orbit class
- APO
- perihelion au
- 0.98
- rotation period h
- 3.2931
- semi major au
- 2.233
- spec taxonomy
- C
- spect
- C
About (276049) 2002 CE26
(276049) 2002 CE26 is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type C and swings within 0.98 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, (276049) 2002 CE26 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 (276049) 2002 CE26 is an uncommon neo
(276049) 2002 CE26 scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 7 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, Carbonaceous — as old as the solar system and Steeply tilted orbit (i > 40°) — 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.