Apollo asteroid

C38469
concept

An Apollo asteroid is a near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses Earth's and has a semi-major axis larger than that of Earth.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Apollo asteroid canonical 7
Earth-crossing asteroid 1
potentially hazardous asteroid candidate 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Apollo asteroid
Generated description
An Apollo asteroid is a near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses Earth's and has a semi-major axis larger than that of Earth.

Instances (7)

Instance Via concept surface
25143 Itokawa
1998 KY26
asteroid 2101 Adonis
surface form: 2101 Adonis
asteroid 1943 Anteros
surface form: 1943 Anteros
asteroid 1862 Apollo
surface form: 1862 Apollo
asteroid 4179 Toutatis
surface form: 4179 Toutatis
asteroid 6489 Golevka
surface form: 6489 Golevka