(30569) Dybczynski Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 27 July 2001 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.

Piotr Andrzej Dybczyński (b. 1957) is a Polish professor at the Astronomical Observatory Institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University. His scientific interests concern various aspects of cometary dynamics, the Oort-cloud, and mechanisms for delivery of dynamically new comets into the inner Solar System.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Dybczynski is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dybczynski is 2.54 au from the Sun and 3.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number30569
Provisional designation2001 OG94
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter6.43 km (#8,341 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0710
Absolute magnitude (H)14.82
Orbital period4.33 years
Semi-major axis2.66 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.12 – 3.19 au
Eccentricity0.201
Inclination2.81°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.11 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Piotr

Also discovered on 27 July 2001

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