(154005) Hughharris Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 January 2002 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
Hugh Harris (b. 1947) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for identifying white-dwarf stars in the SDSS and measuring parallaxes of nearby stars.Naming citation (20120406/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hughharris is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hughharris is 2.39 au from the Sun and 2.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 154005 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 AU206 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.92 km (#17,128 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.210 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.94 |
| Orbital period | 4.05 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.54 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.85 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.121 |
| Inclination | 15.8° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.30 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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