(28607) Jiayipeng Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jiayi Peng (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for her physics and space science project. She attends the Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, New York.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jiayipeng is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jiayipeng is 2.28 au from the Sun and 3.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28607 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EG156 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.15 km (#14,835 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.408 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.46 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.95 – 2.54 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.132 |
| Inclination | 4.49° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.932 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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