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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
30 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Large body (100-500 km)+12
Notably bright (low H)+8
Has a proper name+8
Asteroid+1
Main-belt asteroid+1
Total score30
4 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🪨Asteroid· +1
🗿Large body (100-500 km)· +12
💡Notably bright (low H)· +8
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
🥌Main-belt asteroid· +1
✨ Trivia
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. A main-belt asteroid, one of millions circling between Mars and Jupiter. Despite the films, the belt is so empty that every spacecraft sent through it has crossed without aiming for anything.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.82 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Jupiter.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 3.6 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.82 and 2.85 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 5.3× the length of Manhattan island.
🚶Walk around it. Walking its equator at a steady pace, eight hours a day, would take about 9 days.
Standing on it
🥶Sunlight there. Even at its closest the sunlight is only about 30% as strong as Earth's.
By the numbers
📐Size. Roughly 115 km across.
Properties
albedo
0.163
aphelion au
2.85
designation
12
diameter km
115.087
eccentricity
0.2197
full name
12 Victoria (A850 RA)
h mag
7.3
inclination
8.37
mean motion deg day
0.2763
moid au
0.826
name
Victoria
named
yes
orbit class
MBA
perihelion au
1.822
rotation period h
8.6599
semi major au
2.335
spec taxonomy
L
spect
L
About Victoria
Victoria is an uncommon asteroid. It has spectral type L and swings within 1.822 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
A main-belt asteroid, one of millions circling between Mars and Jupiter. Despite the films, the belt is so empty that every spacecraft sent through it has crossed without aiming for anything.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Victoria 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 Victoria is an uncommon asteroid
Victoria scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Asteroid, Large body (100-500 km), Notably bright (low H), Has a proper name and Main-belt 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.