(15332) CERN Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
With its 27-km cyclotron, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Physics), located in Geneva, is the world's largest particle laboratory. It is currently involved with the search for how particles become mass.Naming citation (20081113/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where CERN is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: CERN is 2.70 au from the Sun and 1.92 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15332 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 TU24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.45 |
| Orbital period | 4.07 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.55 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0580 |
| Inclination | 7.04° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.39 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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