(83360) Catalina Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 September 2001 by Juels, C. W., Holvorcem, P. R. at Fountain Hills.
The Catalina Sky Survey, which began operations in Apr. 1998, is a Near-Earth Object Search program that utilizes a 0.76-m Schmidt telescope located on Mt. Bigelow in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.Naming citation (20050407/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Catalina is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Catalina is 3.02 au from the Sun and 3.99 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 83360 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 SH |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.79 km (#9,231 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0460 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.18 |
| Orbital period | 4.43 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.70 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.17 – 3.22 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.195 |
| Inclination | 12.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.17 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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