(82638) Bottariclaudio Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 August 2001 by Tesi, L., Tombelli, M. at San Marcello.
Since 1980 Claudio Bottari (b. 1960) has been interested in the technical aspects of amateur astronomy and in 1991 was among the first to use CCDs in the Italian amateur community. At the Mira observatory he uses a 0.6-m concentric Schmidt-Cassegrain in search of SNe and NEOs. He discovered SN 1996ai in NGC 5005.Naming citation (20120703/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bottariclaudio is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bottariclaudio is 3.24 au from the Sun and 4.10 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 82638 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 PF1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.63 km (#11,365 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.130 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.76 |
| Orbital period | 5.25 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.02 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.64 – 3.40 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.124 |
| Inclination | 9.12° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.64 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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