(38830) Biets Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 September 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Jean-Marie Biets (b. 1959) is a Belgian amateur astronomer. He is one of the most active photographic observers of meteors in Belgium and has published on the results from those observations for many years.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #15, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Biets is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Biets is 3.58 au from the Sun and 4.38 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 38830 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 RK99 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.8 km (#3,781 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.142 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.03 |
| Orbital period | 7.84 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.95 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.20 – 4.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.189 |
| Inclination | 14.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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