5011 Ptah
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5011 Ptah is a highly eccentric Mars crossing
and Apollo asteroid
, discovered in 1960 and named after an Egyptian god, Ptah
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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
Mars-crosser asteroid
A Mars-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. The known numbered Mars-crossers are listed here. They include the two numbered Mars trojans 5261 Eureka and ....
and Apollo asteroid
Apollo asteroid
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth...
, discovered in 1960 and named after an Egyptian god, Ptah
Ptah
In Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ptah was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen , meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land, though Tatenen was a god in his...
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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