(20395) Jacquet Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 June 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Emmanuel Jacquet (b. 1986) is a French cosmochemist, and part of the meteorite collection curatorial team at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. He is a specialist on the high-temperature components of chondrites, in particular the chondrules, which he investigates with both cosmochemical and astrophysical (transport modeling) means.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 17), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jacquet is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jacquet is 2.56 au from the Sun and 3.45 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20395 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 MY29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 16.3 km (#2,829 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0560 |
| Rotation period | 8.20 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.64 |
| Orbital period | 4.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.85 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.56 – 3.15 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.102 |
| Inclination | 13.8° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.57 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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