192563

ASTEROIDApollo near-Earth asteroid

ILLUSTRATION FROM SMASS TYPE V

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

192563 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid. Its absolute magnitude () is 17.33. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1.452 . It is catalogued as 192563 (1998 WZ6). It was discovered in 1998.

WHAT IT IS
Apollo near-Earth asteroid
HOW FAR
1.452

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

HOW BRIGHT IN ITSELF (H)

How bright it would look from a fixed, standard distance — a measure of the object rather than of the view from here.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
639

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 192563 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

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CATALOG DATA

] 15 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Spectral type (SMASS II)
V

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbital period
639
Eccentricity
Inclination
24.76
Longitude of ascending node
68.68
Argument of perihelion
110.74
Mean anomaly
204.2
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2461477.0700
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
0.0348
Orbit class
APO

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
Kobayashi, T.
Discovered from
Oizumi
Discovered on
1998-11-23
First observed
1998-11-23
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 192563
  • Asteroid 192563 (1998 WZ6)
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. 192563 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/192563
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_192563,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{192563}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/192563},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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