(10792) Ecuador Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 February 1992 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Ecuador, on the west coast of South America and on the equator, is a country containing an immense variety of terrain in the coastal plain, Andes mountain ranges and Amazonian rainforest. Cotapaxi is the world's highest active volcano. Ecuador administers the Galapagos Islands, whose unique fauna entranced Charles Darwin.Naming citation (20010509/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ecuador is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ecuador is 2.90 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10792 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 CQ2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.1 km (#5,050 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.158 |
| Rotation period | 39.8 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.9 |
| Orbital period | 5.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 3.36 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0956 |
| Inclination | 10.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.76 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 2 February 1992
- (6493) Cathybennett
- (7587) Weckmann
- (8676) Lully
- (10542) Ruckers
- (10793) Quito
- (11530) d'Indy
- (13079) Toots
- (24732) Leonardcohen
- (26122) Antonysutton
- (27775) Lilialmanzor
- (79144) Cervantes
More named asteroids discovered by E. W. Elst
- (3631) Sigyn
- (3784) Chopin
- (3870) Mayre
- (3903) Kliment Ohridski
- (3910) Liszt
- (3912) Troja
- (3918) Brel
- (4038) Kristina
- (4226) Damiaan
- (4342) Freud
- (4344) Buxtehude
- (4345) Rachmaninoff
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