Kamoʻoalewa
469219 Kamo`oalewa (2016 HO3)
🚀 Visited by spacecraft
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Rotation period
- 0.467 hours
- Absolute magnitude H
- 24.31 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- APO — Apollo
- Semi-major axis
- 1 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.102
- Inclination
- 7.8°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.898 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 1.1 AU
- Orbital period
- 366 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461318.960
- Earth MOID
- 0.0301 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 366 Earth days (about 1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 8 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- One rotation takes about 0.5 hours.