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Score breakdown
· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Centaur: adrift between the giants+20
Darker than charcoal+10
Kuiper-belt object+5
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score35
15 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
❄️Kuiper-belt object· +5
🔢Catalogue designation only
🦌Centaur: adrift between the giants· +20
🕶️Darker than charcoal· +10
✨ Trivia
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. A centaur, wandering between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune on a path nothing can stabilise. Half asteroid and half comet, and gone from this orbit within a few million years.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 2.79 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Jupiter.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 23 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 2.79 and 13.4 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.2× the height of Mount Everest.
Standing on it
🥶Sunlight there. Even at its closest the sunlight is only about 13% as strong as Earth's.
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 1.18 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
By the numbers
📐Size. Roughly 2 km across.
Properties
albedo
0.035
aphelion au
13.4
designation
2010 CD201
diameter km
1.965
eccentricity
0.6558
full name
(2010 CD201)
h mag
16.76
inclination
24.23
mean motion deg day
0.0428
moid au
1.93
name
2010 CD201
number only
yes
orbit class
CEN
perihelion au
2.786
semi major au
8.094
About 2010 CD201
2010 CD201 is a rare kbo. It swings within 2.786 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
A centaur, wandering between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune on a path nothing can stabilise. Half asteroid and half comet, and gone from this orbit within a few million years.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, 2010 CD201 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 2010 CD201 is a rare kbo
2010 CD201 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Kuiper-belt object, Catalogue designation only, Centaur: adrift between the giants and Darker than charcoal — 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.