(5227) Bocacara Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 August 1986 by INAS at Palomar.
Bocacara is a village in Spain, located 80 km SW of the historic university city of Salamanca. It was first settled in the Middle Ages and remained a farming and herding village until the end of the 20th century. Crops included wheat, beans and garbanzos, but Bocacara was renowned in the region for its potatoes.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-08-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bocacara is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bocacara is 2.48 au from the Sun and 3.41 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5227 |
| Provisional designation | 1986 PE |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.15 km (#10,346 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.383 |
| Rotation period | 5.17 hours |
| Spectral type | S |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.57 |
| Orbital period | 3.47 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.29 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.09 – 2.49 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0862 |
| Inclination | 8.62° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 4 August 1986
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