(10999) Braga-Ribas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 November 1978 by Helin, E. F., Bus, S. J. at Palomar.
Felipe Braga-Ribas (b. 1982) is a professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Curitiba (Brazil) specializing in predictions and observations of stellar occultations, including the detection of rings around the centaur (10199) Chariklo.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Braga-Ribas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Braga-Ribas is 3.31 au from the Sun and 3.66 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10999 |
| Provisional designation | 1978 VC6 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.94 km (#6,644 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0700 |
| Rotation period | 102 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.25 |
| Orbital period | 4.28 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.64 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.74 – 3.53 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.341 |
| Inclination | 9.55° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.759 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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