(9022) Drake Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 August 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M. at Palomar.
Michael J. Drake (b. 1946), popular director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and president of the Meteoritical Society, is a professor and researcher in cosmochemistry and geochemistry who studies the evolution of the earth, moon, igneous meteorites and other terrestrial planetary bodies.Naming citation (20010109/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Drake is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Drake is 3.24 au from the Sun and 3.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9022 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 PC1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.96 km (#7,705 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.277 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.08 |
| Orbital period | 5.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.15 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.45 – 3.84 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.220 |
| Inclination | 19.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.51 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 14 August 1988
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