2022 OB5
Asteroid· orbits the Sun
2022 OB5 — a small (~10 m) metallic near-Earth asteroid on an almost Earth-like orbit; AstroForge's announced first mining target. Its size and composition are estimated (no spacecraft has visited it).
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Key facts
Radius
0.005 km
Distance from Sun
1.03 AU
Orbital period
379.8 days
Eccentricity
0.0548
Science
Physical
- Mean radius
- 0.005 km
Orbital
- Semi-major axis
- 1.03 AU
- From catalogued orbital elements (MPC)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0548
- From catalogued orbital elements (MPC)
- Inclination
- 2.76 °
- From catalogued orbital elements (MPC)
- Orbital period
- 379.8 days
- From catalogued orbital elements (MPC)
- Perihelion
- 0.97 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Aphelion
- 1.08 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Mean orbital velocity
- 29.4 km/s
- Computed from the orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.949 S⊕ · 95% of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.
History
No discovery or exploration history is on record for 2022 OB5.
Images
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.