(28661) Jimdickens Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
James Dickens mentored a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. He teaches at the Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, Tennessee.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jimdickens is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jimdickens is 2.68 au from the Sun and 2.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28661 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GE39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.76 km (#13,305 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.260 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.54 |
| Orbital period | 5.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.94 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.66 – 3.22 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0953 |
| Inclination | 1.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.64 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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