(90288) Dalleave Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 6 March 2003 by Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey at Cima Ekar.

Sergio Dalle Ave (b. 1955), technician and night assistant at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory since 1982, is an expert in graphics and in the enhancement of photographic plates. He contributed to the ADAS project by acquiring and storing data with the Schmidt telescope in Asiago.Naming citation (20070106/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Dalleave is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dalleave is 3.13 au from the Sun and 2.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number90288
Provisional designation2003 ET17
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter7.25 km (#7,366 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0400
Absolute magnitude (H)15.01
Orbital period5.42 years
Semi-major axis3.08 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.60 – 3.57 au
Eccentricity0.156
Inclination9.51°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.61 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Sergio

Also discovered on 6 March 2003

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