(10470) Bartczak Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.

Przemysł aw Bartczak (b. 1974) is a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewic University in Poznan, Poland who studies asteroid lightcurve inversion techniques that yield both convex and non-convex shape and spin solutions.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Bartczak is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bartczak is 2.48 au from the Sun and 2.45 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number10470
Provisional designation1981 EW18
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.10 km (#16,930 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.440
Absolute magnitude (H)15.26
Orbital period3.58 years
Semi-major axis2.34 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.03 – 2.65 au
Eccentricity0.134
Inclination6.62°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.02 au

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

Also discovered on 2 March 1981

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