(129325) Jedhancock Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 October 2005 by CSS at Catalina.
Jed Hancock (b. 1977) served as the detector assembly lead on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission OCAMS camera. He was Civil Space Division director at the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory and managed development of camera assemblies on NASA's Ionospheric Connect Explorer mission.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jedhancock is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jedhancock is 2.59 au from the Sun and 1.77 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 129325 |
| Provisional designation | 2005 TW72 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.99 km (#6,585 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0500 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.51 |
| Orbital period | 5.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.06 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.44 – 3.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.201 |
| Inclination | 13.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.46 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.