7350

ASTEROIDApollo near-Earth asteroid

ILLUSTRATION FROM ALBEDO 0.069 · RADIUS 0.961 KM

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

7350 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid. Its absolute magnitude () is 17.16. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1.356 . Its effective radius is 0.96 . It is catalogued as 7350 (1993 VA). It was discovered in 1993.

WHAT IT IS
Apollo near-Earth asteroid
HOW FAR
1.356

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

HOW BIG
0.96

The radius of a ball that would look the same size — the body itself is not round.

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
577

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 7350 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

] 16 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.

Rotation period
3.58264

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Albedo

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
577
Eccentricity
Inclination
7.26
Longitude of ascending node
133.04
Argument of perihelion
336.72
Mean anomaly
198.26
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2461459.6300
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
0.0806
Orbit class
APO

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

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

Discovered by
McNaught, R. H.
Discovered from
Siding Spring
Discovered on
1993-11-07
First observed
1963-10-15
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 7350
  • Asteroid 7350 (1993 VA)
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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.

  • JPL Small-Body Database7350

    The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.

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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. 7350 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/7350
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_7350,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{7350}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/7350},
  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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