Orbit from osculating elements
162173 Ryugu is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit at the simulation time (a = 1.2 AU, e = 0.1903, i = 5.9°, period 473.9 d).
Near-Earth asteroid visited by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission. Samples returned to Earth in 2020.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
162173 Ryugu is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit at the simulation time (a = 1.2 AU, e = 0.1903, i = 5.9°, period 473.9 d).
162173 Ryugu: mean radius 0.5 km; mass 4.500 × 10^11 kg. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.
The surface is a procedural shape unless a source record above says otherwise. It is not a measured shape model.
The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.
| Dataset | Last refreshed | Horizon | Automated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current comets and near-Earth asteroids | no snapshot date | Osculating elements at the snapshot epoch; propagated as two-body conics | Yes, weekly (Monday data job) npm run fetch:data |