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data-file-width="898" data-file-height="907" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Orbit of Kamoʻoalewa in the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Solar_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner Solar System">inner Solar System</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFC2E0">Discovery <sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planet_discoverers" title="List of minor planet discoverers">Discovered by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_observatory_codes" title="List of observatory codes">Discovery site</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Haleakala_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Haleakala Observatory">Haleakala Observatory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Discovery date</th><td class="infobox-data">27 April 2016</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFC2E0">Designations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Minor-planet_designation" title="Minor-planet designation">MPC designation</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">(469219) <span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ʔ/: the catch in 'uh-oh'">ʔ</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Hawaiian:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="haw-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Hawaiian" title="Help:IPA/Hawaiian">[kəˈmoʔowəˈlɛvə]</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Named after</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_469001%E2%80%93470000#219" class="mw-redirect" title="Meanings of minor planet names: 469001–470000">Kamoʻoalewa</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">("the oscillating fragment")</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_astronomy" title="Provisional designation in astronomy">Alternative designations</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Minor_planet#Populations" title="Minor planet">Minor planet category</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">NEO</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_asteroid" title="Apollo asteroid">Apollo</a> <sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>Earth <a href="/wiki/Quasi-satellite" title="Quasi-satellite">quasi-satellite</a> <sup id="cite_ref-de-la-Fuente-Marcos-2016_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-de-la-Fuente-Marcos-2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFC2E0"><a href="/wiki/Osculating_orbit" title="Osculating orbit">Orbital characteristics</a> <sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Epoch_(astronomy)" title="Epoch (astronomy)">Epoch</a> 2024-Mar-31 (<a href="/wiki/Julian_day" title="Julian day">JD</a> 2460400.5)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Uncertainty_parameter" title="Uncertainty parameter">Uncertainty parameter</a> 0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Observation_arc" title="Observation arc">Observation arc</a></th><td class="infobox-data">20.00 <a href="/wiki/Julian_year_(astronomy)" title="Julian year (astronomy)">yr</a> (7,306 d)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion" class="mw-redirect" title="Perihelion and aphelion">Aphelion</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1.10373 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion" class="mw-redirect" title="Perihelion and aphelion">Perihelion</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.89816 AU</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">Semi-major axis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.00094 AU</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">Eccentricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.10269<br />(964 wrt Earth)<sup id="cite_ref-geocentric_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geocentric-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">Orbital period (sidereal)</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.0014 yr (365.77 d)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_anomaly#Mean_anomaly_at_epoch" title="Mean anomaly">Mean anomaly</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">175.153<a href="/wiki/Degree_(angle)" title="Degree (angle)">°</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_motion" title="Mean motion">Mean motion</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0° 59<sup>m</sup> 3.192<sup>s</sup> / day</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">Inclination</a></th><td class="infobox-data">7.79605°</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Longitude_of_the_ascending_node" title="Longitude of the ascending node">Longitude of ascending node</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">65.7907°</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Argument_of_periapsis" title="Argument of periapsis">Argument of perihelion</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">305.0478°</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Earth <a href="/wiki/Minimum_orbit_intersection_distance" title="Minimum orbit intersection distance">MOID</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.0311 AU (12.1 LD)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFC2E0"><span class="anchor" id="Infobox_Physical_characteristics"></span><a href="/wiki/Standard_asteroid_physical_characteristics" title="Standard asteroid physical characteristics">Physical characteristics</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_radius_(astronomy)" title="Mean radius (astronomy)">Mean diameter</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7001410000000000000♠"></span>0.041 <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(calculated)</span><sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>0.04–0.10 km<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Synodic_rotation_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Synodic rotation period">Synodic rotation period</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7003168120000000000♠"></span>0.467<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.008 <a href="/wiki/Hour" title="Hour">h</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-lcdb-Reddy-2018_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-Reddy-2018-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Geometric_albedo" title="Geometric albedo">Geometric albedo</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0.20 <span style="font-size:85%;">(assumed)</span><sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_spectral_types" title="Asteroid spectral types">Spectral type</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(assumed)</span><sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Absolute_magnitude#Solar_System_bodies_(H)" title="Absolute magnitude">Absolute magnitude <i>(H)</i></a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>24.33<sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>24.3<sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_astronomy" title="Provisional designation in astronomy">provisionally designated</a> <b><span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span></b>, is a very small <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_fast_rotators_(minor_planets)" title="List of fast rotators (minor planets)">fast rotator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">near-Earth object</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_asteroid" title="Apollo asteroid">Apollo group</a>, approximately 40–100 meters (130–330 feet) in diameter. At present it is a <a href="/wiki/Quasi-satellite" title="Quasi-satellite">quasi-satellite</a> of Earth, and currently the second-smallest, closest, and most stable known such quasi-satellite (after <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2023_FW13" title="2023 FW13">2023 FW<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">13</span></span></a></span>). The asteroid was discovered by <a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a> at <a href="/wiki/Haleakala_Observatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Haleakala Observatory">Haleakala Observatory</a> on 27 April 2016. It was named <a href="/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_469001%E2%80%93470000#219" class="mw-redirect" title="Meanings of minor planet names: 469001–470000">Kamoʻoalewa</a>, a Hawaiian word that refers to an oscillating <a href="/wiki/Celestial_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial object">celestial object</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The object's Earth-like orbit and its composition of lunar-like <a href="/wiki/Silicate" title="Silicate">silicates</a> may be a result of it being lunar ejecta.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharkey2021_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharkey2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-spacecom20240423_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spacecom20240423-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery_and_naming">Discovery and naming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery and naming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kamoʻoalewa was first spotted on 27 April 2016, by the <a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a> 1 asteroid survey telescope on <a href="/wiki/Haleakal%C4%81" title="Haleakalā">Haleakalā</a>, Hawaii, that is operated by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Hawaii">University of Hawaii</a>'s Institute for Astronomy and funded by NASA's <a href="/wiki/Planetary_Defense_Coordination_Office" title="Planetary Defense Coordination Office">Planetary Defense Coordination Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name Kamoʻoalewa is derived from the Hawaiian words <i>ka</i> 'the', <i>moʻo</i> 'fragment', referring to it being a piece broken off a larger object, <i>a</i> 'of', and <i>lewa</i> 'to oscillate', referring to its motion in the sky as viewed from Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official <a href="/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_469001%E2%80%93470000#219" class="mw-redirect" title="Meanings of minor planet names: 469001–470000">naming citation</a> was published by the <a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Center" title="Minor Planet Center">Minor Planet Center</a> on 6 April 2019 (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Circulars" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor Planet Circulars">M.P.C.</a> 112435</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-Circulars-Archive_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-Circulars-Archive-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orbit_and_classification">Orbit and classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Orbit and classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kamoʻoalewa orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.90–1.10 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a>. Although the period as of 2022 is about 366 days, its longer-term average period is closer to 365 days since it is a <a href="/wiki/Quasi-satellite" title="Quasi-satellite">quasi-satellite</a> of Earth and will continue to be so for hundreds of years. Its orbit has an <a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">eccentricity</a> of 0.10 and an <a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">inclination</a> of 8<a href="/wiki/Degree_(angle)" title="Degree (angle)">°</a> with respect to the <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">ecliptic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It presently has an Earth <a href="/wiki/Minimum_orbital_intersection_distance" class="mw-redirect" title="Minimum orbital intersection distance">minimum orbital intersection distance</a> of 0.031 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a> (4.6 million <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a>) that translates into 12 <a href="/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar distance (astronomy)">lunar distances</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This distance is well outside of Earth's <a href="/wiki/Hill_sphere#Solar_System" title="Hill sphere">Hill sphere</a> of 1.5 million km (3.9 LD). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quasi-satellite_of_Earth">Quasi-satellite of Earth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quasi-satellite of Earth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/170px--Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="170" height="96" data-durationhint="61" data-mwtitle="Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="1077" data-height="606" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>The oscillating path of asteroid Kamoʻoalewa as it orbits around the Sun. The traced path of Kamoʻoalewa makes it appear as a constant companion of the Earth.</figcaption></figure></div></div> <p>In a frame of reference that rotates once a year, so that the Earth and the Sun remain relatively stationary, Kamoʻoalewa appears to circle elliptically around the Earth. The object is beyond the <a href="/wiki/Hill_sphere" title="Hill sphere">Hill sphere</a> of Earth and the Sun exerts a much stronger pull on it than Earth does. Although it is too distant to be considered a true <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">natural satellite</a> of Earth, it is the best and most stable example to date of a near-Earth companion, or <a href="/wiki/Quasi-satellite" title="Quasi-satellite">quasi-satellite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-de-la-Fuente-Marcos-2016_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-de-la-Fuente-Marcos-2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paul Chodas, manager of <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Near-Earth_Object_Studies" title="Center for Near-Earth Object Studies">Center for Near-Earth Object Studies</a> (CNEOS) at the <a href="/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a> (JPL) in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>, commented on the orbit: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Since <span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span> loops around our planet, but never ventures very far away as we both go around the Sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth. One other asteroid –  <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2003_YN107" title="2003 YN107">2003 YN<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">107</span></span></a></span> –  followed a similar orbital pattern for a while over 10 years ago, but it has since departed our vicinity. This new asteroid is much more <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">locked onto us</a>. Our calculations indicate <span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span> has been a stable quasi-satellite of Earth for almost a century, and it will continue to follow this pattern as Earth's companion for centuries to come.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In its yearly trek around the Sun, Kamoʻoalewa spends approximately half of the time closer to the Sun than Earth is (that is, the asteroid is inside the <a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit" title="Earth's orbit">Earth's orbit</a>) and passes ahead of our planet, and approximately half of the time farther away (crosses outside Earth's orbit), causing it to fall behind. Also, its orbit is tilted a little, causing it to bob up and then down once each year through Earth's orbital plane. In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a game of leap frog with Earth that will last for hundreds of years.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chodas explained how the asteroid's orbit also undergoes a slow, back-and-forth twist over multiple decades: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a> is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of <a href="/wiki/The_Moon" class="mw-redirect" title="The Moon">the moon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-apogee2030_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apogee2030-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same effect also prevents the asteroid from approaching much closer than about 38 times <a href="/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar distance (astronomy)">the distance of the moon</a>. In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a little dance with Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Kamoʻoalewa is currently the most stable among the quasi-satellites of Earth that have been discovered and will remain in that orbit for about the next 300 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharkey2021_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharkey2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But it alternates between stages of being a quasi-satellite and of being in a <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_orbit" title="Horseshoe orbit">horseshoe orbit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jiao_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jiao-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 24th century it will go back to being in a horseshoe orbit. The closest Earth approach was on 27 December 1923<span class="noprint"> (100 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1923-12-27</span>)</span> at 12.44 million <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a> (0.0832 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a>; 32.4 <a href="/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar distance (astronomy)">LD</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-jpldata_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpldata-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By late May 2369, the asteroid will be 2.0 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a> (780 <a href="/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar distance (astronomy)">LD</a>; 300 million <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a>) from Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-Horizons2369_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horizons2369-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Earth-like orbit may be a result of it being lunar ejecta.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharkey2021_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharkey2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After limiting crater size based on simulations of impacts that could eject a piece this large into a quasi-satellite orbit, and limiting crater age to between 1 and 10 million years based on the instability of the asteroid's orbit, a 2024 study found that the most likely origin is the 22 km (14 mi) wide <a href="/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_(crater)" title="Giordano Bruno (crater)">Giordano Bruno crater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-spacecom20240423_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spacecom20240423-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jiao_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jiao-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most objects in this kind of orbit are eventually perturbed out of being in an Earth-co-orbital state and hit the Earth, Venus, or the Sun or are ejected from the solar system, and Kamoʻoalewa will probably hit the Earth in the next 100 million years.<sup id="cite_ref-Jiao_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jiao-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_characteristics">Physical characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Physical characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The size of Kamoʻoalewa has not yet been firmly established, but it is approximately 40–100 m (130–330 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-news_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-news-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based on an assumed standard <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_albedo" class="mw-redirect" title="Astronomical albedo">albedo</a> for stony <a href="/wiki/S-type_asteroid" title="S-type asteroid">S-type asteroids</a> of 0.20, its <a href="/wiki/Absolute_magnitude" title="Absolute magnitude">absolute magnitude</a> of 24.3 corresponds to a 41 meters (135 ft) diameter.<sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Photometric observations in April 2017 revealed that Kamoʻoalewa is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_fast_rotators_(minor_planets)" title="List of fast rotators (minor planets)">fast rotator</a>. <a href="/wiki/Lightcurve" class="mw-redirect" title="Lightcurve">Lightcurve</a> analysis gave a <a href="/wiki/Rotation_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotation period">rotation period</a> of 0.467 ± 0.008 hours (28.02 ± 0.48 minutes) and a brightness variation of <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6999800000000000000♠"></span>0.80<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.05</span> <a href="/wiki/Magnitude_(astronomy)" title="Magnitude (astronomy)">magnitude</a> (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/LCDB_quality_code" class="mw-redirect" title="LCDB quality code">U=2</a></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lcdb-Reddy-2018_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-Reddy-2018-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, a comprehensive physical characterization of Kamoʻoalewa was conducted using the <a href="/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope" title="Large Binocular Telescope">Large Binocular Telescope</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lowell_Discovery_Telescope" title="Lowell Discovery Telescope">Lowell Discovery Telescope</a>, which found that the asteroid is composed of lunar-like silicates and may be an impact fragment from the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharkey2021_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharkey2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploration">Exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proposed_missions">Proposed missions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Proposed missions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 2017 Astrodynamics Specialist Conference held in <a href="/wiki/Stevenson,_Washington" title="Stevenson, Washington">Stevenson</a> in the U.S. state of Washington, a team composed of graduate research assistants from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder">University of Colorado Boulder</a> and the <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_State_University" title="São Paulo State University">São Paulo State University</a> (UNESP) was awarded for presenting a project denominated "Near-Earth Asteroid Characterization and Observation (NEACO) Mission to Asteroid (469219) <span class="nowrap">2016 HO<sub>3</sub></span>", providing the first baselines for the investigation of this celestial object using a spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recently, another version of this work was presented adopting different constraints in the dynamics.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/China_National_Space_Administration" title="China National Space Administration">China National Space Administration</a> (CNSA) is planning a robotic mission that would <a href="/wiki/Sample-return_mission" title="Sample-return mission">return samples</a> from Kamoʻoalewa.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This mission, <i><a href="/wiki/Tianwen-2" title="Tianwen-2">Tianwen-2</a></i>, is planned to launch in 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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.tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:717px;max-width:717px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Animation of the orbit of Kamoʻoalewa from 2000 to 2300, showing quasi-satellite phase</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:237px;max-width:237px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth_2000-2300.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" 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class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif/235px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif" decoding="async" width="235" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif/353px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif/470px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth_2000-2300.gif 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Around Earth (non-rotating frame)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:237px;max-width:237px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif/235px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif" decoding="async" width="235" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif/353px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif/470px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun_2000-2300.gif 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Around Sun (non-rotating frame)</div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color: Yellow; color:black;"> </span>  Sun</span> <b>·</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color: RoyalBlue; color:white;"> </span>  Earth</span> <b>·</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Magenta; color:black;"> </span>  469219 Kamo'oalewa</span></div></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:717px;max-width:717px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Animation of the orbit of Kamoʻoalewa from 1600 to 2500, going from horseshoe orbit to quasi-satellite and back</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:237px;max-width:237px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif/235px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif" decoding="async" width="235" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif/353px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif/470px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_relative_to_Sun-Earth.gif 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Relative to Sun and Earth (rotating frame of reference)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:237px;max-width:237px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif/235px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif" decoding="async" width="235" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif/353px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif/470px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Earth.gif 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Around Earth (non-rotating frame)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:237px;max-width:237px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif/235px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif" decoding="async" width="235" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif/353px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif/470px-Animation_of_2016_HO3_orbit_around_Sun.gif 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Around Sun (non-rotating frame)</div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color: Yellow; color:black;"> </span>  Sun</span> <b>·</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color: RoyalBlue; color:white;"> </span>  Earth</span> <b>·</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Magenta; color:black;"> </span>  469219 Kamo'oalewa</span></div></div></div></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arjuna_asteroid" title="Arjuna asteroid">Arjuna asteroid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3753_Cruithne" title="3753 Cruithne">3753 Cruithne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6Q0B44E" title="6Q0B44E">6Q0B44E</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2001_GO2" title="2001 GO2">2001 GO<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">2</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2002_AA29" title="2002 AA29">2002 AA<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">29</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2003_YN107" title="2003 YN107">2003 YN<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">107</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_JY26" title="2006 JY26">2006 JY<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">26</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_RH120" title="2006 RH120">2006 RH<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">120</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_FC71" title="2012 FC71">2012 FC<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">71</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2013_BS45" title="2013 BS45">2013 BS<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">45</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(419624)_2010_SO16" title="(419624) 2010 SO16">(419624) 2010 SO<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">16</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(436724)_2011_UW158" title="(436724) 2011 UW158">(436724) 2011 UW<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">158</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/524522_Zoozve" title="524522 Zoozve">524522 Zoozve</a></span>, a quasi-satellite of Venus, and the first quasi-satellite discovered around any major planet</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-geocentric-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-geocentric_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Computed with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%27469219%27&TABLE_TYPE=%27ELEMENTS%27&START_TIME=%272024-Mar-31%27&STOP_TIME=%272100-Jan-01%27&STEP_SIZE=%27100%20years%27">JPL Horizons</a> using a geocentric solution. Ephemeris Type: Orbital Elements / Center: 500 / Time Span: 2022-Jan-21 (to match infobox epoch)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lcdb-Reddy-2018-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lcdb-Reddy-2018_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lcdb-Reddy-2018_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Exceptional rotation period of 0.467 ± 0.008 hours (28.02 ± 0.48 minutes) with a brightness amplitude of <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6999800000000000000♠"></span>0.80<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.05</span> mag, quality code = 2, based on summary figures at the <a href="/wiki/Light_curve#Asteroid_lightcurve_database" title="Light curve">LCDB</a>, which references (Reddy 2018).<sup id="cite_ref-lcdb_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcdb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Relevant abstract in ADS is (Reddy 2017).<sup id="cite_ref-Reddy2017_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reddy2017-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-apogee2030-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-apogee2030_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%27469219%27&START_TIME=%272030-Jul-08%27&STOP_TIME=%272030-Jul-10%27&STEP_SIZE=%271%20day%27&QUANTITIES=%2720%27">2030-Jul-09</a>, it will be 0.293 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">AU</a> (114 <a href="/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar distance (astronomy)">LD</a>) from Earth, but Earth's <a href="/wiki/Hill_sphere#Solar_System" title="Hill sphere">Hill sphere</a> only has a radius of roughly 1.5 million km (3.9 LD). For comparison in 2022 <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a> will be 103 LD from Earth.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=469219_Kamo%CA%BBoalewa&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-MPC-object-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MPC-object_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPC-object_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPC-object_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPC-object_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPC-object_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=469219">"(469219) Kamoʻoalewa = 2016 HO3"</a>. <i>Minor Planet Center</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DN160822_03" title="DN160822 03">DN160822 03</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Selected <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">NEOs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth_in_2016" title="List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2016">Asteroid close approaches</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(85990)_1999_JV6" title="(85990) 1999 JV6">(85990) 1999 JV<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">6</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1994_WR12" title="1994 WR12">1994 WR<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">12</span></span></a></span></li> <li><span 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J1240+6710">SDSS J1240+6710</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crater_2_Dwarf" title="Crater 2 Dwarf">Crater 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GW151226" title="GW151226">GW151226</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(announced)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_RR245" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 RR245">2015 RR<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">245</span></span></a></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(announced)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BOSS_Great_Wall" title="BOSS Great Wall">BOSS Great Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GRB_160625B" title="GRB 160625B">GRB 160625B</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(471325)_2011_KT19" title="(471325) 2011 KT19">(471325) 2011 KT<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">19</span></span></a></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(announced)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_UZ224" title="2014 UZ224">2014 UZ<span style="position: 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(spacecraft)">Rosetta</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)" title="Philae (spacecraft)">Philae</a></i> (end of mission to <a href="/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" title="67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko">comet 67P</a>; Sep 2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schiaparelli_EDM" title="Schiaparelli EDM"><i>Schiaparelli</i> EDM</a> (Mars lander; Oct 2016)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Earth-moon.jpg/32px-Earth-moon.jpg" decoding="async" width="32" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Earth-moon.jpg/48px-Earth-moon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Earth-moon.jpg/64px-Earth-moon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Outer_space" title="Portal:Outer 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