(97578) Jessicabarnes Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 February 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Jessica Barnes (b. 1988) is a British cosmochemist at the LPL researching the origin and evolution of volatiles in the solar system. She is a member of the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team and studies lunar basalts through the Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis program. Jessica is a recipient of the Meteoritical Society's Nier Prize.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #26, 4), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jessicabarnes is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jessicabarnes is 3.22 au from the Sun and 2.68 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 97578 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 DP116 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.3 |
| Orbital period | 5.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.12 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.96 – 3.28 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0504 |
| Inclination | 20.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.01 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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