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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
39 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Potentially hazardous+12
Brilliantly reflective surface+10
Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Tiny fragment (<1 km)+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
⚱️Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit· +8
🪙Brilliantly reflective surface· +10
✨ 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 27.9 thousand megatons — enough to devastate a region the size of a small country.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. An Aten-class object, spending most of its time inside Earth's orbit and crossing ours from the sunward side — which makes this family wretchedly hard to spot against the daylight.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 0.31 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mercury.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 197 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.31 and 1.01 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 7.2 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🔥Sunlight there. At closest approach the Sun beats down about 10.5 times harder than it ever does on Earth.
Properties
albedo
0.449
aphelion au
1.01
designation
138127
diameter km
0.754
eccentricity
0.5331
full name
138127 (2000 EE14)
h mag
17.11
inclination
26.46
mean motion deg day
1.831
moid au
0.023
name
(138127) 2000 EE14
number only
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.309
pha
yes
rotation period h
2.586
semi major au
0.6618
About (138127) 2000 EE14
(138127) 2000 EE14 is a rare neo. It swings within 0.309 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Aten-class object, spending most of its time inside Earth's orbit and crossing ours from the sunward side — which makes this family wretchedly hard to spot against the daylight.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (138127) 2000 EE14 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 (138127) 2000 EE14 is a rare neo
(138127) 2000 EE14 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, Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit and Brilliantly reflective surface — 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.