(7195) Danboice Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 January 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
Astronomer Daniel Craig Boice (b. 1953) is an expert in cometary science and a dedicated educator. He was a member of NASA's Deep Space 1 Mission to comet 19P/Borrelly, codiscoverer of a radio flare on Menkar and recipient of the P. Gott Award. He is strongly committed to international scientific collaboration.Naming citation (20020624/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Danboice is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Danboice is 1.89 au from the Sun and 1.61 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7195 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 AJ |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.46 km (#9,771 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.163 |
| Rotation period | 8.70 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.61 |
| Orbital period | 3.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.86 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.232 |
| Inclination | 9.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.860 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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