Asteroid 2443
Main-belt debris around 8.3 km wide, holding a 2.81 AU orbit with a 4.7 years period.
Where it is right now
Asteroid 2443 is in Leo, 3.96 AU away.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 17:00 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.
Facts
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
- 4.2 km
- Diameter
- 8.3 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 2.811 AU (420.5 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 2.498 AU (373.7 million km) to 3.123 AU (467.2 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.1112, slightly elliptical
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 7.83 degrees
- Orbital period
- 4.7 years (1,721 days)
- Longitude of ascending node
- 189.28 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 97.63 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 4.64 degrees
Claim this body
$5 once, and it stays yours
Procedurally generated. Name it whatever you like. Never sells out.
A claim is a listing on this map. Not an IAU designation. Permanent, with one disclosed exception for dead links: see the terms.
Catalog id ast-02443. 3,172 objects on the map, of which this one is a procedural belt rock.