Arrokoth
486958 Arrokoth (2014 MU69)
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📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Rotation period
- 15.918 hours
- Absolute magnitude H
- 11.06 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TNO — TransNeptunian Object
- Semi-major axis
- 44.1 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0356
- Inclination
- 2.45°
- Perihelion distance
- 42.5 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 45.6 AU
- Orbital period
- 107,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2475741.404
- Earth MOID
- 41.5 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 107,000 Earth days (about 293 years).
- Sunlight needs about 6.1 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 44.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- One rotation takes about 15.9 hours.