Dinkinesh
152830 Dinkinesh (1999 VD57)
🚀 Visited by spacecraft
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 0.719 km
- Rotation period
- 52.67 hours
- Absolute magnitude H
- 17.4 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.19 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.113
- Inclination
- 2.09°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.94 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.44 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,190 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461103.026
- Earth MOID
- 0.962 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 719 m across — 0.2% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,190 Earth days (about 3.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 18 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.