Editing 1620 Geographos

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |1620 Geographos
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Geographos-AsteroidPackv1zip-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''1620 Geographos from ''AsteroidPack_v1.00.zip'' in Orbiter 2003P2'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|1620 Geographos
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|Sun
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|width="30%"|Number of satellites||align="right" width="30%"|0
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|2006
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"| 186315638173.388 m<br>(1.24544311568598 AU)
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"| 0.335415102834536
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|0.232845464045468 radian<br>(13.3410623685705°)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|5.88689533166951 radian<br>337.29425693993°
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|10.7178284350264 radian<br>614.086334872317°
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|12.5060362286656 radian<br>716.543094340244°
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Rotational Elements
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|width="30%"|Sidereal Rotation Period||align="right" width="50%"|18802.8 seconds<br>(5.223 hours)
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|width="30%"|Sidereal Rotation Offset||align="right" width="50%"|0
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|width="30%"|Obliquity||align="right" width="30%"|0.1 radians<br>0°
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"| 3450 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|4×10<su>12</sup> kg
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|width="30%"|Equatorial gravity||align="right" width="30%"|0.000022 m/s<sup>2</sup>
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|width="30%"|Escape velocity||align="right" width="30%"| 0.0004 m/s
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|width="30%"|Gravity at surface||aligh="right" width="30%"|Geographos 1%<br>Sun 99%
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Geographos.cfg file.
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'''1620 Geographos''' is a Near-Earth object discovered in 1951 by [[w:Albert George Wilson|Albert George Wilson]] and [[w:Rudolph Minkowski]] at [[w:Palomar Observatory|Palomar]] and is named in honor of the [[w:National Geographic Society]].

Geographos was to be visited by the [[w:Clementine mission]], but it failed to reach the body.

== Geographos in Orbiter ==
1620 Geographos was modeled in Orbiter as a somewhat potato shaped object about 5 km on the longest dimension. Because the visual surface of Geographos is well below the hard radius of the body, landing anywhere on the body's radius you end up well above the visual surface. Because even at the surface, geographos only provides 1% of the local gravity, the [[Sun]] providing the other 99%, a ship cannot orbit Geographos, it can only fly along with it in solar orbit, maneuvering in its vicinity. A ship also cannot land and remain  on the hard surface, it will immediately drift off the surface. When maneuvering in the vicinity, have SurfaceMFD up so that the pilot can monitor the ship's altitude above the surface.

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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include 1620 Geographos'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/asteroid-pack-1-00.2832/ Asteroid Pack 1.00]||O-F Resources||2004-11-21||Nighthawke||Scenery||21 November 2004||||
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== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
Geographos-AsteroidPackv1zip-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|<center>1620 Geographos from ''AsteroidPack_v1.00.zip'' in Orbiter 2003P2</center>
1620Geographos (Lightcurve Inversion).png|<center>3D model of 1620 Geographos based on light-curve model<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
Animation_of_1620_Geographos_orbit.gif|Animation of the orbit of Geographos as compared to [[Venus]], [[Earth]] and [[Mars]] from 2010 to 2020.<br>From Wikimedia Commons.
</gallery>

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