(7055) Fabiopagan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 May 1989 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.
Fabio Pagan (b. 1946) is an Italian science journalist who covers space travel, astrobiology and physics. He has written for Trieste's Il Piccolo newspaper and he was a radio presenter on RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. He was also press officer at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-11-14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Fabiopagan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Fabiopagan is 2.44 au from the Sun and 2.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7055 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 KB |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.69 km (#8,009 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.321 |
| Rotation period | 4.17 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.03 |
| Orbital period | 3.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.35 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.78 – 2.92 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.244 |
| Inclination | 23.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.853 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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