(67235) Fairbank Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 March 2000 by S. Sposetti at Gnosca.
William Martin Fairbank (1917-1989), professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1948. He taught at Amherst College and Duke University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1959. His research interests included superconductivity, gravity waves, individual quarks and monopoles.Naming citation (20070106/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Fairbank is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Fairbank is 2.97 au from the Sun and 2.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 67235 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EJ15 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.53 |
| Orbital period | 4.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.53 – 3.01 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0866 |
| Inclination | 8.77° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.53 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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