(129064) Jeanneladewig Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 4 November 2004 by CSS at Catalina.

Jeanne Ladewig (b. 1957) is the flight system Payload Accommodation Lead Engineer and the TAGCAMS CPE at Lockheed Martin for the OSIRIS-REx Mission and the Payload Accommodation Lead Engineer on the Juno and Phoenix missions. She has multi-mission experience working payloads on NASA interplanetary missions.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Jeanneladewig is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jeanneladewig is 2.61 au from the Sun and 2.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number129064
Provisional designation2004 VT26
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter5.17 km (#10,321 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0870
Absolute magnitude (H)15.03
Orbital period5.32 years
Semi-major axis3.05 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.55 – 3.54 au
Eccentricity0.162
Inclination10.2°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.59 au

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

Also named after someone called Jeanne

Also discovered on 4 November 2004

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