(15620) Beltrami Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Eugenio Beltrami (1835-1900) was an Italian mathematician who held professorships at Pisa, Pavia and Rome. He contributed to the differential geometry of curves and surfaces, particularly the pseudosphere of constant negative curvature as a model of Lobachevskian geometry.Naming citation (20001111/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Beltrami is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Beltrami is 2.31 au from the Sun and 3.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15620 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HQ14 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.38 |
| Orbital period | 3.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.05 – 2.79 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.152 |
| Inclination | 1.57° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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