(29628) Fedorets Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 October 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Grigori Fedorets (b. 1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) whose contributions include asteroid orbit computation in the Gaia mission and simulations of minimoon discoverability with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Fedorets is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Fedorets is 2.35 au from the Sun and 3.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 29628 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 TX30 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.92 km (#12,939 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.240 |
| Rotation period | 5.41 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 3.31 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.44 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.101 |
| Inclination | 5.99° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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