(300221) Brucebills Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 December 2006 by D. R. Skillman at Front Royal.
Bruce G. Bills (b. 1951) is a planetary scientist who has worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Goddard Space Flight Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and in 2012 was head of the JPL Asteroids, Comets, and Satellites Group.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2013-04-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Brucebills is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brucebills is 3.64 au from the Sun and 4.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 300221 |
| Provisional designation | 2006 XA5 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.87 |
| Orbital period | 5.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.13 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.60 – 3.67 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.172 |
| Inclination | 10.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.62 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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