(26532) Eduardoboff Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Eduardo Trierweiler Boff (b. 1991) was awarded second place in the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his materials-and-bioengineering team project. He attends the Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Eduardoboff is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Eduardoboff is 2.91 au from the Sun and 2.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 26532 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CZ102 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.97 km (#6,616 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0580 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.59 |
| Orbital period | 4.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0772 |
| Inclination | 5.16° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.54 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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