(51178) Geraintjones Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 April 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Geraint H. Jones (b. 1970) is head of planetary science at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. He leads the European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor mission, and studies the interactions between comets and the solar wind, as well as planetary magnetospheres.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 26), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Geraintjones is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Geraintjones is 3.12 au from the Sun and 2.16 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 51178 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HX70 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 18.5 km (#2,416 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0570 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.69 |
| Orbital period | 7.87 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.96 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.03 – 4.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.234 |
| Inclination | 10.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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