(20315) Dotson Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jessie Dotson (b. 1969) is an American astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center. She is known for her expertise on developing telescope instrumentation, serving as the project scientist for NASA’s Kepler/K2 Space Telescope, and her work on NASA’s Asteroid Threat Assessment Project, an interdisciplinary effort to quantify the risk of asteroid impacts.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Dotson is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dotson is 2.35 au from the Sun and 1.53 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20315 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FD130 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.96 km (#12,847 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.179 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 4.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.71 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.27 – 3.14 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.161 |
| Inclination | 12.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.29 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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