(8049) Janvier Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 17 March 1996 by NEAT at Haleakala.

Miho Janvier (b. 1985) is a French solar and space physicist at the European Space Agency. Her research focuses on understanding how solar flares occur and understanding how solar storms travel through space and interact with planets. She is a noted science communicator and author of Les Secrets du Soleil.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #25, 23), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

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Where Janvier is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Janvier is 2.80 au from the Sun and 3.65 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	8049
Provisional designation	1996 FL2
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	6.58 km (#8,150 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.309
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.03
Orbital period	4.93 years
Semi-major axis	2.90 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.79 – 3.01 au
Eccentricity	0.0372
Inclination	1.14°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.77 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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