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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
39 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Potentially hazardous+12
Darker than charcoal+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
🕶️Darker than charcoal· +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 2649 megatons — about 53 times the largest bomb ever detonated.
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 0.64 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Venus.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 332 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.64 and 1.24 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 3.3 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.21 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
albedo
0.045
aphelion au
1.24
designation
234145
diameter km
0.344
eccentricity
0.3213
full name
234145 (2000 EW70)
h mag
21.58
inclination
5.43
mean motion deg day
1.086
moid au
0.0104
name
(234145) 2000 EW70
number only
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.636
pha
yes
rotation period h
33
semi major au
0.9376
About (234145) 2000 EW70
(234145) 2000 EW70 is a rare neo. It swings within 0.636 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, (234145) 2000 EW70 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 (234145) 2000 EW70 is a rare neo
(234145) 2000 EW70 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 Darker than charcoal — 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.