(49987) Bonata Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 3 January 2000 by Tesi, L., Forti, G. at San Marcello.

Italian aerospace engineer Diego Bonata (b. 1968) has promoted laws for the control of light pollution and energy saving through the Cielobuio Association, of which he is president. At the Carl Sagan Observatory in Brignano Gera d'Adda he has developed new environmentally compatible technologies for lighting engineering.Naming citation (20070926/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Bonata is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bonata is 2.77 au from the Sun and 3.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	49987
Provisional designation	2000 AB5
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	3.26 km (#14,587 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.418
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.34
Orbital period	4.34 years
Semi-major axis	2.66 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.34 – 2.98 au
Eccentricity	0.119
Inclination	13.9°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.33 au

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

Also named after someone called Diego

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Also discovered on 3 January 2000

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