(33402) Canizares Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Claude R. Canizares (b. 1945) is a renowned physicist, the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT, Associate Director of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and former director of MIT's Center for Space Research. This naming is upon his retirement as Vice President of MIT.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2013-11-17), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Canizares is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Canizares is 2.41 au from the Sun and 1.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 33402 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 CC71 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 11.2 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.77 |
| Orbital period | 4.18 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.59 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.39 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0801 |
| Inclination | 15.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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