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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 3270 megatons — about 65.4 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 0.74 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 324 days.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.74 and 1.11 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 3.5 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.22 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
albedo
0.471
aphelion au
1.11
designation
414286
diameter km
0.369
eccentricity
0.1992
full name
414286 (2008 OC6)
h mag
18.59
inclination
21.85
mean motion deg day
1.111
moid au
0.0306
name
(414286) 2008 OC6
number only
yes
orbit class
ATE
perihelion au
0.739
pha
yes
semi major au
0.9231
About (414286) 2008 OC6
(414286) 2008 OC6 is a rare neo. It swings within 0.739 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, (414286) 2008 OC6 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 (414286) 2008 OC6 is a rare neo
(414286) 2008 OC6 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.