← Back to dex - Barely turning (over 100 hours) +8
- Near-Earth object +5
- Tiny fragment (<1 km) +4
- Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside +4
- Catalogue designation only +0
Total score 21
1 more point to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- 🌠 Near-Earth object · +5
- 🤏 Tiny fragment (<1 km) · +4
- 🔢 Catalogue designation only
- 💘 Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside · +4
- 🐌 Barely turning (over 100 hours) · +8
✨ Trivia
What it actually is
- 🛸 Its orbit family. An Amor-class object. It approaches Earth's orbit from outside without ever crossing it — named for the asteroid Amor, which swept past at 16 million km in 1932.
- 🌞 Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.07 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mars.
- 🔁 One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 2.1 years.
- 🥏 How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.07 and 2.18 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
- 🧱 Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 6.3 football pitches across.
Standing on it
- 🦘 Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.4 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
By the numbers
- 📐 Size. Roughly 658 metres across.
What's in a name
- 🔢 Designation. Known only by its catalogue designation — no name yet.
Properties
- albedo
- 0.31
- aphelion au
- 2.18
- designation
- 411201
- diameter km
- 0.658
- eccentricity
- 0.3419
- full name
- 411201 (2010 LJ14)
- h mag
- 17.8
- inclination
- 12.03
- mean motion deg day
- 0.4753
- moid au
- 0.172
- name
- (411201) 2010 LJ14
- number only
- yes
- orbit class
- AMO
- perihelion au
- 1.07
- rotation period h
- 113
- semi major au
- 1.626
About (411201) 2010 LJ14
(411201) 2010 LJ14 is a common neo. It swings within 1.07 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Amor-class object. It approaches Earth's orbit from outside without ever crossing it — named for the asteroid Amor, which swept past at 16 million km in 1932.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (411201) 2010 LJ14 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 (411201) 2010 LJ14 is a common neo
(411201) 2010 LJ14 scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Tiny fragment (<1 km), Catalogue designation only, Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside and Barely turning (over 100 hours) — 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.