(92891) Bless Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 August 2000 by R. Millis at Cerro Tololo.
Robert C. Bless (b. 1927) served on the astronomy faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1958 until 1995. An expert in stellar energy distributions, he taught and encouraged many astronomy graduate students, including the discoverer, whose Ph.D. thesis research he advised.Naming citation (20080520/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bless is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bless is 2.40 au from the Sun and 2.40 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 92891 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QK236 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.65 km (#17,297 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.312 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.13 |
| Orbital period | 3.51 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.31 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 2.47 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0708 |
| Inclination | 6.04° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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