(4490) Bambery Inner Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 14 July 1988 by Helin, E. F., Roman, B. at Palomar.

Named in honor of Raymond J. Bambery, chemist and image-processing scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a great interest in all aspects of astronomy. He has spent several sessions at Palomar helping search for near-Earth minor planets and has been instrumental in upgrading measuring and data reduction techniques.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #28, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Bambery is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bambery is 1.75 au from the Sun and 1.09 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	4490
Provisional designation	1988 ND
Orbit class	Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	9.32 km (#5,535 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.141
Rotation period	5.82 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.37
Orbital period	2.68 years
Semi-major axis	1.93 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.75 – 2.11 au
Eccentricity	0.0920
Inclination	26.1°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.865 au

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

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