(6689) Floss Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Christine Floss (b. 1961) is a meteoriticist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the trace element and isotopic signatures of interplanetary dust particles, chondrites and differentiated meteorites to understand their origins.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Floss is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Floss is 2.50 au from the Sun and 3.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6689 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EQ24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.99 km (#15,229 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.164 |
| Rotation period | 0.880 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.02 |
| Orbital period | 3.29 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.83 – 2.59 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.172 |
| Inclination | 4.42° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.822 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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