5011 Ptah

Tags: Planet.

5011 Ptah is a highly eccentric Mars crossing and Apollo asteroid discovered in 1960 and named after an Egyptian god Ptah.It passes within 30 Gm (0.2 AU) of Earth 15 times between 1900 and 2100 most recently on January 21 2007 at 29.6 Gm. The next one will be in 2027 at 28.6 Gm

apoapsis (km)

3.66515e+11

average speed (km/s)

163696.0

orbital period (μ)

6.60052e+07

periapsis (km)

1.22371e+11

absolute magnitude

17.1

discovery date

1960-09-24

discoverer

Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels

epoch

January 1 2007 (JD 2488070.5)

former name

6743 P-L