(90502) Buratti Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 March 2004 by NEAT at Palomar.
Bonnie J. Buratti (b. 1952), a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studies photometric properties of the surfaces of outer planet natural satellites and the small bodies of the solar system. She is a member of the science teams for the Clementine, Deep Space 1, Cassini and New Horizons missions.Naming citation (20080321/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Buratti is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Buratti is 3.29 au from the Sun and 3.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 90502 |
| Provisional designation | 2004 EM7 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.08 km (#5,698 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0590 |
| Rotation period | 74.7 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.12 |
| Orbital period | 7.95 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.98 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.21 – 4.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.193 |
| Inclination | 9.12° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.24 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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