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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Metal-rich asteroid+14
Crosses Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+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
⚙️Metal-rich asteroid· +14
✨ 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 0.89 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 5.6 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.89 and 5.39 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 7.5 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.47 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
By the numbers
📐Estimated size. Nobody has measured its size directly. Assuming it reflects light like a typical asteroid, its brightness implies something roughly 788 metres across.
Properties
aphelion au
5.39
designation
506437
eccentricity
0.7171
full name
506437 (2000 WL10)
h mag
18.27
inclination
10.26
mean motion deg day
0.1772
moid au
0.064
name
(506437) 2000 WL10
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.888
semi major au
3.139
spec taxonomy
Xc
spect
Xc
About (506437) 2000 WL10
(506437) 2000 WL10 is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type Xc and swings within 0.888 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, (506437) 2000 WL10 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 (506437) 2000 WL10 is an uncommon neo
(506437) 2000 WL10 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 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Crosses Earth's orbit, Catalogue designation only, Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit and Metal-rich 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.