(133528) Ceragioli Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 October 2003 by D. Healy at Junk Bond.
Roger Ceragioli (b. 1959) is senior optician at the University of Arizona's Steward Mirror Laboratory. His projects include the “90-Prime” focus corrector for the Bok Telescope and the MODS spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope. His Ph.D. dissertation was on “The lore and poetry of the Dog Star in antiquity”.Naming citation (20070601/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ceragioli is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ceragioli is 2.78 au from the Sun and 3.18 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 133528 |
| Provisional designation | 2003 TC2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.05 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.62 |
| Orbital period | 4.83 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.86 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.60 – 3.11 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0894 |
| Inclination | 1.26° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.59 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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