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1999 XS35 is a damocloid asteroid discovered in 1999 having a comet-like orbit. Its semi-major axis is 17.8 AU. Its orbital eccentricity is 0.94 which means that at the perihelion 1999 XS35 comes as close as 0.9 AU to the Sun while at the aphelion it reaches beyond the orbit of Neptune. The asteroid is a damocloid.

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apoapsis (km)
5.19105e+12
orbital period (μ)
2.37313e+09
periapsis (km)
1.39874e+11
absolute magnitude
17.2
apparent magnitude
13.7
discovery date
1999-12-02
discoverer
Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope, Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
epoch
2012-Mar-14 (JD 2456000.5), T_jup = 1.407

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