(75564) Audubon Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 January 2000 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills.
John James Audubon (1785–1851) was the preeminent wildlife artist in the U.S. for half a century. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard against which bird artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are judged. The National Audubon Society bears his name.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 4, #10, 7), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Audubon is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Audubon is 2.62 au from the Sun and 1.89 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 75564 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AJ |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.76 km (#15,739 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.306 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.06 |
| Orbital period | 3.51 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.31 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.62 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.133 |
| Inclination | 8.77° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.03 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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