Torifune
98943 Torifune (2001 CC21)
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📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Rotation period
- 5.0159 hours
- Absolute magnitude H
- 18.71 mag
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- L
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- APO — Apollo
- Semi-major axis
- 1.03 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.219
- Inclination
- 4.81°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.806 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 1.26 AU
- Orbital period
- 383 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461233.798
- Earth MOID
- 0.083 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 383 Earth days (about 1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 9 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- One rotation takes about 5 hours.