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Score breakdown
· 4 badges
21 pts · Common
Common22 pts → Uncommon
Potentially hazardous+12
Near-Earth object+5
Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit+4
Catalogue designation only+0
Total score21
1 more point to reach Uncommon.
Badges
🌠Near-Earth object· +5
⚠️Potentially hazardous· +12
🔢Catalogue designation only
🏛️Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit· +4
✨ 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 1402 megatons — about 28 times the largest bomb ever detonated.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
🌞Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 0.95 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Earth.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 1.2 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 0.95 and 1.33 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 2.7 football pitches across.
Standing on it
🦘Don't jump. Escape velocity here is only around 0.17 m/s. A determined jump would launch you off it and into your own orbit around the Sun.
Properties
aphelion au
1.33
designation
483422
eccentricity
0.1667
full name
483422 (2000 CE59)
h mag
20.53
inclination
12.26
mean motion deg day
0.8124
moid au
0.0086
name
(483422) 2000 CE59
number only
yes
orbit class
APO
perihelion au
0.948
pha
yes
rotation period h
3.623
semi major au
1.137
spec taxonomy
L
spect
L
About (483422) 2000 CE59
(483422) 2000 CE59 is a common neo. It has spectral type L and swings within 0.948 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, (483422) 2000 CE59 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 (483422) 2000 CE59 is a common neo
(483422) 2000 CE59 scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Catalogue designation only and Apollo: crosses 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.