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Key facts
- Discovered by
- Simon Green John K. Davies / IRAS
- Discovery date
- October 11, 1983
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ f eɪ . ə θ ɒ n /
- Named after
- Phaëthon
- Alternative designations
- 1983 TB
- Minor planet category
- Apollo asteroid Potentially hazardous asteroid Mercury-crosser asteroid Venus-crosser asteroid Earth-crosser asteroid Mars-crosser asteroid
- Adjectives
- Phaethonian / f eɪ ə ˈ θ oʊ n i ə n /
- Observation arc
- 12,941 days (35.43 yr)
- Aphelion
- 2.4028 AU (359 million km )
- Perihelion
- 0.13998 AU (20.9 million km)
- Semi major axis
- 1.2714 AU (190 million km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 523.6 days (1.434 yr)
- Average orbital speed
- 19.9 km/s (45,000 mph)
- Mean anomaly
- 313.94°
- Mean motion
- 0° 41 15.108 / day
- Inclination
- 22.260°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 265.22°
- Time of perihelion
- May 15, 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth asteroid
- Named after
- Phaethon
- Followed by
- 3201 Sijthoff
- Follows
- 3199 Nefertiti
- Parent body
- Sun
- Child body
- Geminids
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 6.25
- Orbital period
- 523.6236739942816
- Image
- Asteroid Phaethon 25dec2010 stack.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- IRAS
- provisional designation
- 1983 TB
- time of discovery or invention
- 1983-10-11
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.8897184635457245
- orbital inclination
- 22.31263747259711
- Commons category
- 3200 Phaethon
- site of astronomical discovery
- IRAS
- absolute magnitude
- 14.39
- mean anomaly
- 163.9750967783587
- longitude of ascending node
- 265.0955719893683
- argument of periapsis
- 322.3065124633594
- periapsis
- 0.1402114151284196
- apoapsis
- 2.402578967313405
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.271395191220912
- albedo
- 0.1066
- rotation period
- 3.604
- asteroid spectral type
- F-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2460761.9965482815
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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