(47052) Guillaumefaury Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Guillaume Faury (b. 1976) is a research engineer at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (Toulouse). An expert in space image analysis, he worked on the Rosetta mission and successfully located the Philae lander on the surface of 67P. He has produced many anaglyph 3D views for the CNES archive.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #5, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Guillaumefaury is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Guillaumefaury is 2.82 au from the Sun and 3.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 47052 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 XE1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.22 |
| Orbital period | 4.26 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.37 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0990 |
| Inclination | 3.24° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.37 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Guillaume
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