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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Metal-rich asteroid+14
Potentially hazardous+12
Near-Earth object+5
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score35
15 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🔢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 19.1 thousand megatons — enough to devastate a region the size of a small country.
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 0.44 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Venus.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 1.8 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.44 and 2.52 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 6.3 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🔥Sunlight there. At closest approach the Sun beats down about 5.1 times harder than it ever does on Earth.
Properties
aphelion au
2.52
designation
228368
eccentricity
0.7022
full name
228368 (2000 WK10)
h mag
18.64
inclination
14.73
mean motion deg day
0.5479
moid au
0.0222
name
(228368) 2000 WK10
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.441
pha
yes
semi major au
1.479
spec taxonomy
X
spect
X
About (228368) 2000 WK10
(228368) 2000 WK10 is a rare neo. It has spectral type X and swings within 0.441 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, (228368) 2000 WK10 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 (228368) 2000 WK10 is a rare neo
(228368) 2000 WK10 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 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, 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.