(23055) Barbjewett Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Barbara Jewett mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the River Hill High School, Clarksville, Maryland.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Barbjewett is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Barbjewett is 2.81 au from the Sun and 2.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23055 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XF43 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.71 km (#9,377 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0590 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.23 |
| Orbital period | 3.75 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.02 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.166 |
| Inclination | 2.50° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.999 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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