(70710) Chuckfellows Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 October 1999 by CSS at Catalina.
Charles Fellows (b. 1962) is the Project Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite. He was also the Lead and Systems Engineer for the Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer, the Thermal Evolved Gas Analyzer on the Phoenix Mars Lander, and was a team member for the DISR instrument that flew on the Cassini mission.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-09-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Chuckfellows is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Chuckfellows is 2.66 au from the Sun and 3.36 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 70710 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 UE44 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.22 |
| Orbital period | 4.11 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.56 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.43 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0515 |
| Inclination | 4.01° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.45 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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