(214928) Carrara Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 November 2007 by at Vallemare Borbona 107121 Casulli, V. S..
Carrara is a town and municipality in the province of Massa-Carrara, Tuscany. It is the world's most important center for the extraction and processing of Carrara marble, a very precious white marble that is extracted from the nearby Apuane Alps.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-11-04), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Carrara is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carrara is 2.37 au from the Sun and 3.13 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 214928 |
| Provisional designation | 2007 VM8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 17.45 |
| Orbital period | 3.59 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.31 – 2.38 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0157 |
| Inclination | 4.19° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.31 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.