(22065) Colgrove Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Clinton Allen Colgrove mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. He teaches at the Newcastle Middle School, New Castle, Wyoming.Naming citation (20051019/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Colgrove is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Colgrove is 2.44 au from the Sun and 2.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22065 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AZ99 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.51 km (#13,929 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.328 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.41 |
| Orbital period | 3.74 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.41 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.37 – 2.44 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0154 |
| Inclination | 8.13° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.35 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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