(15052) Emileschweitzer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 December 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Emile Schweitzer (b. 1923) was for 25 years president of the Association Françoise des Etoiles Variables. He collected and checked more than a million visual estimates of variable stars for the association's quarterly bulletin and worked with much dedication to develop this useful field of amateur astronomy.Naming citation (20020526/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Emileschweitzer is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Emileschweitzer is 2.95 au from the Sun and 3.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15052 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 YD2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.62 km (#5,327 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0830 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.91 |
| Orbital period | 5.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.15 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 3.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.144 |
| Inclination | 4.09° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.70 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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