(227711) Dailyminorplanet Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 February 2006 by CSS at Catalina.
The Daily Minor Planet is a project developed by the Catalina Sky Survey and hosted on the Zooniverse citizen science platform. This project has had thousands of volunteers discover numerous asteroids from archival images acquired from Catalina's G96, Mt. Lemmon survey.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #7, 7), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Dailyminorplanet is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dailyminorplanet is 3.31 au from the Sun and 2.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 227711 |
| Provisional designation | 2006 DP114 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.51 km (#7,102 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0220 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.48 |
| Orbital period | 5.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.10 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.43 – 3.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.214 |
| Inclination | 16.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.44 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.