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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon34 pts → Rare
Potentially hazardous+12
Darker than charcoal+10
Near-Earth object+5
Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score31
3 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🔢Catalogue designation only
💘Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside· +4
🕶️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 654.9 thousand megatons — enough to devastate a region the size of a small country.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. An Amor-class object. It approaches Earth's orbit from outside without ever crossing it — named for the asteroid Amor, which swept past at 16 million km in 1932.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.04 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mars.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 4.3 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.04 and 4.24 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.2× the height of Mount Everest.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 1.3 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
albedo
0.024
aphelion au
4.24
designation
436671
diameter km
2.159
eccentricity
0.6066
full name
436671 (2011 SV71)
h mag
18
inclination
13.36
mean motion deg day
0.2301
moid au
0.0278
name
(436671) 2011 SV71
number only
yes
orbit class
AMO
perihelion au
1.038
pha
yes
semi major au
2.637
About (436671) 2011 SV71
(436671) 2011 SV71 is an uncommon neo. It swings within 1.038 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Amor-class object. It approaches Earth's orbit from outside without ever crossing it — named for the asteroid Amor, which swept past at 16 million km in 1932.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (436671) 2011 SV71 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 (436671) 2011 SV71 is an uncommon neo
(436671) 2011 SV71 scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Catalogue designation only, Amor: shadows Earth's orbit from outside 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.