(43806) Augustepiccard Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D. at Tautenburg.
Swiss-Belgian physicist Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) studied the upper stratosphere and the depths of the sea. In 1932 he made a balloon ascent to a height of 16~940 meters, and in 1953 he descended by bathyscaphe to a depth of 3150 meters. His son Jacques (b. 1922) attained a submarine depth of 10~910 m.Naming citation (20021120/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Augustepiccard is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Augustepiccard is 2.06 au from the Sun and 1.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 43806 |
| Provisional designation | 1991 RG7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.45 km (#16,357 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.323 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.18 |
| Orbital period | 3.84 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.179 |
| Inclination | 3.74° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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