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2020 HA10

asteroid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ99514180 ↗
Source-derived summary

2020 HA10 is a near-Earth object of the Atira group. It was discovered at G=20.4 mag on 2020 April 28 by the Mount Lemmon Survey using the 0.5 m reflector + 10 K CCD.

2020 HA10 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.7–0.9 AU once every 9 months (271 days; semi-major axis of 0.82 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an unusually high inclination of 50° with respect to the ecliptic. The orbital evolution of 2020 HA10 leads the object into the Aten orbital realm periodically.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2020 HA10” is asteroid. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through HA10 and asteroid, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, HA10 and asteroid is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2020 HA10” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.