(28751) Eggl Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 April 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Siegfried Eggl (b. 1981) is an Austrian professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His primary research areas are astrodynamics, space situational awareness, and planetary defense, with additional interest in exoplanet studies. Eggl is a member of the DART Investigation Team.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 11), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Eggl is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Eggl is 2.67 au from the Sun and 2.51 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28751 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GT167 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.68 |
| Orbital period | 4.00 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.52 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.24 – 2.81 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.113 |
| Inclination | 1.74° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Siegfried
All asteroids named after someone called Siegfried
Also discovered on 4 April 2000
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