About Lyyli
Lyyli is a rare asteroid. It has spectral type X and swings within 1.539 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
A Mars-crosser: its orbit reaches in far enough to cut clean across the path of Mars.
Rare asteroid 38 EP
Lyyli
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Live ephemeris
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Score breakdown
· 5 badgesRare 50 pts → Epic
- Metal-rich asteroid +14
- Darker than charcoal +10
- Has a proper name +8
- Mars-crosser +5
- Asteroid +1
Total score 38
12 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Asteroid · +1
- Has a proper name · +8
- Mars-crosser · +5
- Darker than charcoal · +10
- Metal-rich asteroid · +14
Trivia
What it actually is
- Its orbit family. A Mars-crosser: its orbit reaches in far enough to cut clean across the path of Mars.
- Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.54 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Jupiter.
- One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 4.2 years.
- How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.54 and 3.64 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
- Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 2.8× the height of Mount Everest.
- Walk around it. Walking its equator at a steady pace, eight hours a day, would take about 2 days.
By the numbers
- Size. Roughly 25.2 km across.
What's in a name
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- albedo
- 0.0232
- aphelion au
- 3.64
- designation
- 2204
- diameter km
- 25.16
- eccentricity
- 0.4057
- full name
- 2204 Lyyli (1943 EQ)
- h mag
- 12.17
- inclination
- 20.63
- mean motion deg day
- 0.2365
- moid au
- 0.688
- name
- Lyyli
- named
- yes
- orbit class
- MCA
- perihelion au
- 1.539
- rotation period h
- 11.056
- semi major au
- 2.589
- spec taxonomy
- X
- spect
- X
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Lyyli 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 Lyyli is a rare asteroid
Lyyli scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Asteroid, Has a proper name, Mars-crosser, Darker than charcoal 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.