(134150) Bralower Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 January 2005 by CSS at Catalina.
Harrison L. Bralower (b. 1988) worked as a student engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he designed the detector assembly mount for the student-built Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer aboard the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bralower is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bralower is 2.62 au from the Sun and 3.45 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 134150 |
| Provisional designation | 2005 AU57 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.67 km (#15,930 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.227 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.51 |
| Orbital period | 4.26 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.46 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0651 |
| Inclination | 15.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.47 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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