(64975) Gianrix Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 January 2002 by CINEOS at Campo Imperatore.
Gianrico (“Gianrix”) Filacchione (b. 1972) worked on the in-flight calibration of the imaging spectrometer VIMS-V on the Cassini mission. He currently studies Saturn's rings and hyperspectral data on icy satellites and is in charge of the calibration pipeline of Rosetta-VIRTIS, Dawn-VIR and Bepicolombo-VIHI experiments.Naming citation (20070601/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gianrix is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gianrix is 3.67 au from the Sun and 3.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 64975 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 AG12 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.14 |
| Orbital period | 5.08 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.95 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 3.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.257 |
| Inclination | 1.63° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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