(28474) Bustamante Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Elisa Bustamante (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her environmental sciences team project. She attends the Escuela Tecnica No. 12, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.Naming citation (20121029/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bustamante is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bustamante is 2.31 au from the Sun and 2.63 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28474 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 BB30 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.02 km (#15,168 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.147 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.64 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.98 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 5.77° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.975 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Elisa
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