(7777) Consadole Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 February 1993 by Ueda, S., Kaneda, H. at Kushiro.
Consadole, a team in the Japan Professional Football League J1, has its home in Sapporo city, Hokkaido. The team's name is an anagram combining the Japanese word Dosanco (“born in Hokkaido”) and the Spanish olé (“bravo!”), a common international cheer at soccer games. The name was suggested by K. Watanabe.Naming citation (20010109/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Consadole is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Consadole is 2.52 au from the Sun and 1.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7777 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 CO1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.43 km (#14,159 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.378 |
| Rotation period | 1.13 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.91 |
| Orbital period | 3.53 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.103 |
| Inclination | 4.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.10 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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