(28051) Bruzzone Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 April 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Juan Sebastian Bruzzone (b. 1981) is a Uruguayan Postdoctoral Researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He specializes in the study of meteors, meteoroids, debris disks and planetary systems, including developments in processing of radar, polarimetric and optical observations of meteors.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 11), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bruzzone is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bruzzone is 2.97 au from the Sun and 3.52 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28051 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 HS153 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 4.94 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.90 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.82 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0277 |
| Inclination | 0.973° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.80 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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