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Ryugu
Asteroid · Apollo asteroid
About Ryugu
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Ryugu was 1.11 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 9.21 minutes to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 474.70 days, at an average distance of 1.191 AU.
The map lists it as an asteroid and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 1.191 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 474.70 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.1911 |
| Inclination | 5.87° |
| Radius | 450 m |
| Distance from the Sun | 1.11 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Inner planets, a view about 4 AU across.
From Wikipedia
162173 Ryugu (provisional designation 1999 JU3) is a near-Earth object and also a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a B-type asteroid.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article 162173 Ryugu, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.