(30883) de Broglie Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D. at Tautenburg.
French physicist Louis-Victor de Broglie (1892-1987), late in deciding on his career, chose for his doctoral thesis in 1924 a revolutionary theory of electron waves, exposing the duality between wave and corpuscle and founding the wave-theory of matter. He received the 1929 Nobel Prize in physics.Naming citation (20020427/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where de Broglie is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: de Broglie is 2.73 au from the Sun and 1.77 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30883 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 SW16 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.17 |
| Orbital period | 4.21 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.61 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.17 – 3.05 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.169 |
| Inclination | 1.15° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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