(27480) Heablonsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Heather Blonsky mentored a finalist in the 2011 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle-school students. She teaches at the Price Creek Independent School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Naming citation (20111210/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Heablonsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Heablonsky is 2.75 au from the Sun and 2.41 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27480 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GV88 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.54 km (#17,329 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.741 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.09 |
| Orbital period | 3.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 2.79 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.192 |
| Inclination | 9.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.910 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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