Asteroid 999
Also called "Asteroid Shiba" here. Not an IAU designation.
Main-belt debris around 0.9 km wide, holding a 2.21 AU orbit with a 3.3 years period.
Where it is right now
Asteroid 999 is in Leo, 3.21 AU away.
Computed for 8 August 2026, 21:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from a Kepler propagation of the published elements below, accurate to about an arcminute.
See Asteroid 999 on the mapFacts
Nothing sourced to say. This is one of the 3,000 procedurally generated belt rocks: it stands in for a real population, but no observatory has catalogued this particular object, and inventing a fact about it would undermine every sourced fact elsewhere on the site.
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 449 m
- Diameter
- 0.9 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 2.214 AU (331.2 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 2.000 AU (299.2 million km) to 2.428 AU (363.2 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0965, slightly elliptical
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 7.53 degrees
- Orbital period
- 3.3 years (1,203 days)
- Longitude of ascending node
- 313.12 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 309.15 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 238.98 degrees
Who holds this body
Held by bitbigcat.eth since 2026.
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Catalog id ast-00999. 3,172 objects on the map, of which this one is a procedural belt rock.