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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Passes within two lunar distances of Earth's orbit+18
Near-Earth object+5
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Stony asteroid+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score31
3 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
🔢Catalogue designation only
🏛️Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit· +4
🪡Passes within two lunar distances of Earth's orbit· +18
🧗Stony asteroid· +4
✨ Trivia
Handle with care
🛡️What 'hazardous' means. 'Potentially hazardous' is bookkeeping, not a prediction: it means the orbit passes within 0.05 AU of Earth's and the body is big enough to matter. Nothing on that list is known to be on a collision course.
☄️If it ever hit. A rock this size arriving at a typical 20 km/s would release around 1441 megatons — about 28.8 times the largest bomb ever detonated.
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 0.82 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 2 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.82 and 2.31 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 2.7 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.17 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
aphelion au
2.31
designation
20425
eccentricity
0.4767
full name
20425 (1998 VD35)
h mag
20.51
inclination
6.99
mean motion deg day
0.5036
moid au
0.0036
name
(20425) 1998 VD35
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.819
pha
yes
semi major au
1.565
spec taxonomy
Sq
spect
Sq
About (20425) 1998 VD35
(20425) 1998 VD35 is an uncommon neo. It has spectral type Sq and swings within 0.819 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (20425) 1998 VD35 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 (20425) 1998 VD35 is an uncommon neo
(20425) 1998 VD35 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, Catalogue designation only, Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit, Passes within two lunar distances of Earth's orbit and Stony 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.