(5165) Videnom Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 11 February 1985 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.

Videnom is a popular weekly television program on natural science, broadcast by the national Danish television station for more than 10 years.Naming citation (20050407/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Videnom is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Videnom is 2.70 au from the Sun and 3.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number5165
Provisional designation1985 CG
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter4.25 km (#12,164 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.468
Rotation period3.15 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)13.65
Orbital period3.69 years
Semi-major axis2.39 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.98 – 2.80 au
Eccentricity0.170
Inclination3.38°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.00 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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