(5701) Baltuck Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 3 November 1929 by C. W. Tombaugh at Flagstaff.

Miriam Baltuck (b. 1954), NASA's representative in Australia and southeast Asia from 1997 to 2002, also served for three years as science and technology advisor at the U.S. embassy in Canberra. In Apr. 2005 she became director of university advancement at the Australian National University.Naming citation (20051215/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Baltuck is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Baltuck is 2.83 au from the Sun and 3.33 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	5701
Provisional designation	1929 VS
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	8.61 km (#6,064 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.262
Rotation period	4.83 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.76
Orbital period	4.57 years
Semi-major axis	2.76 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.23 – 3.28 au
Eccentricity	0.190
Inclination	6.22°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.23 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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