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Key facts
- Discovered by
- K. Reinmuth
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg Obs.
- Discovery date
- 24 April 1932
- Pronunciation
- / ə ˈ p ɒ l oʊ /
- Named after
- Apollo , (Greek mythology)
- Alternative designations
- 1932 HA 24px (astrological)
- Minor planet category
- NEO · PHA , Venus-crosser , Mars-crosser , Apollo asteroids
- Observation arc
- 95.27 yr (34796 days)
- Earliest precovery date
- 24 April 1932
- Aphelion
- 2.2945 AU (343.25 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 0.64733 AU (96.839 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 1.4709 AU (220.04 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 1.7840 yr (651.60 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 113.88 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 33 8.928 / day
- Inclination
- 6.3514°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 35.542°
- Argument of perihelion
- 286.05°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth asteroid
- Named after
- Apollo
- Followed by
- 1863 Antinous
- Follows
- 1861 Komenský
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- Apollo asteroid
- Diameter
- 1.5
- Orbital period
- 651.6039225887832
- Image
- 1862Apollo (Lightcurve Inversion).png
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- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5599179930610263
- discoverer or inventor
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
- site of astronomical discovery
- Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1932 HA
- time of discovery or invention
- 1932-04-24
- Commons category
- 1862 Apollo
- orbital inclination
- 6.351390019564655
- albedo
- 0.25
- absolute magnitude
- 16.08
- periapsis
- 0.6473270985742849
- apoapsis
- 2.294520504225118
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.470923801399701
- mean anomaly
- 113.884536253593
- longitude of ascending node
- 35.54161437708266
- argument of periapsis
- 286.0509036767049
- rotation period
- 3.065
- asteroid spectral type
- Q-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2460794.367748486
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
Spectral type Q (Tholen, SMASS) B–V = 0.819 U–B = 0.481 Absolute magnitude (H) 16.09
1862 Apollo /əˈpɒloʊ/ is a stony asteroid, approximately 1.5 kilometers in diameter, classified as a near-Earth object (NEO). It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory on 24 April 1932, but was lost and not recovered until 1973.
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