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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
39 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Metal-rich asteroid+14
Potentially hazardous+12
Near-Earth object+5
Tiny fragment (<1 km)+4
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score39
11 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🤏Tiny fragment (<1 km)· +4
🔢Catalogue designation only
🏛️Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit· +4
⚙️Metal-rich asteroid· +14
✨ 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 5970 megatons — about 119 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 0.69 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Venus.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 1 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.69 and 1.32 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 4.3 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.27 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
albedo
0.095
aphelion au
1.32
designation
85990
diameter km
0.451
eccentricity
0.3116
full name
85990 (1999 JV6)
h mag
20.27
inclination
5.36
mean motion deg day
0.9723
moid au
0.0314
name
(85990) 1999 JV6
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.695
pha
yes
rotation period h
6.538
semi major au
1.009
spec taxonomy
Xk
spect
Xk
About (85990) 1999 JV6
(85990) 1999 JV6 is a rare neo. It has spectral type Xk and swings within 0.695 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, (85990) 1999 JV6 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 (85990) 1999 JV6 is a rare neo
(85990) 1999 JV6 scores 39 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Tiny fragment (<1 km), 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.