(15230) Alona Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 September 1987 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.
Alona (b. 1997) is a daughter of Valentina Arkadievna Andreichenko, who performed the reductions for astrometric measurements by the discoverer and served as translator for the Tomsk-Uccle Observational Program.Naming citation (20020328/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Alona is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alona is 2.16 au from the Sun and 2.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15230 |
| Provisional designation | 1987 RF1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.43 km (#14,151 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.314 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.7 |
| Orbital period | 3.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.91 – 2.66 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.165 |
| Inclination | 5.43° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.925 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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