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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
37 pts · Rare
Rare50 pts → Epic
Potentially hazardous+12
Has a proper name+8
Aten: mostly inside Earth's orbit+8
Near-Earth object+5
Tiny fragment (<1 km)+4
Total score37
13 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🤏Tiny fragment (<1 km)· +4
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
⚱️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 6417 megatons — about 128 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 0.63 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Venus.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 294 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.63 and 1.1 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 4.4 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.28 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
albedo
0.137
aphelion au
1.1
designation
398188
diameter km
0.462
eccentricity
0.2734
full name
398188 Agni (2010 LE15)
h mag
19.33
inclination
13.25
mean motion deg day
1.226
moid au
0.0224
name
Agni
named
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.628
pha
yes
rotation period h
21.99
semi major au
0.8646
About Agni
Agni is a rare neo. It swings within 0.628 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, Agni 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 Agni is a rare neo
Agni scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Tiny fragment (<1 km), Has a proper name 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.