(6224) El Goresy Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 1 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.

Ahmed El Goresy (b. 1933), a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, has conducted pioneering research on shock processes in meteorites and terrestrial impact craters. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of sulfide mineralogy and reflected light optical microscopy of opaque minerals.Naming citation (20020624/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where El Goresy is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: El Goresy is 2.51 au from the Sun and 1.61 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	6224
Provisional designation	1981 EK8
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	3.64 km (#13,618 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.279
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.67
Orbital period	3.63 years
Semi-major axis	2.36 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.03 – 2.70 au
Eccentricity	0.143
Inclination	5.39°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.01 au

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

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Also discovered on 1 March 1981

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