(27810) Daveturner Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 July 1993 by Shoemaker, C. S., Levy, D. H. at Palomar.
David G. Turner, editor of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada between 1996 and 2000, is an enthusiastic professor of astronomy and physics at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. By means of photoelectric photometry and CCD imaging, he has pursued a study of Cepheid variable stars.Naming citation (20040107/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Daveturner is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Daveturner is 1.99 au from the Sun and 1.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27810 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 OC2 |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 546 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.48 |
| Orbital period | 2.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.83 – 2.04 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0544 |
| Inclination | 18.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.856 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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