This object moves — fetching its current position…
Score breakdown
· 5 badges
29 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Potentially hazardous+12
Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Tiny fragment (<1 km)+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score29
5 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🤏Tiny fragment (<1 km)· +4
🔢Catalogue designation only
⚱️Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit· +8
✨ 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 4387 megatons — about 87.7 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 0.43 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Venus.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 267 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.43 and 1.19 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 3.9 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🔥Sunlight there. At closest approach the Sun beats down about 5.3 times harder than it ever does on Earth.
Properties
albedo
0.388
aphelion au
1.19
designation
297418
diameter km
0.407
eccentricity
0.4669
full name
297418 (2000 SP43)
h mag
18.51
inclination
10.34
mean motion deg day
1.348
moid au
0.0194
name
(297418) 2000 SP43
number only
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.433
pha
yes
rotation period h
6.314
semi major au
0.8115
About (297418) 2000 SP43
(297418) 2000 SP43 is an uncommon neo. It swings within 0.433 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, (297418) 2000 SP43 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 (297418) 2000 SP43 is an uncommon neo
(297418) 2000 SP43 scores 29 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Tiny fragment (<1 km), Catalogue designation only and Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit — 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.