(5594) Jimmiller Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 July 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.
Named in honor of James K. Miller (b. 1939), celestial mechanics and orbital dynamics expert at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Miller played a key role in navigating the NEAR spacecraft and in determining the mass of (433) Eros from perturbations of the NEAR spacecraft's trajectory. Name and citation provided by J. Veverka and D. K. Yeomans.Naming citation (19990728/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jimmiller is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jimmiller is 3.32 au from the Sun and 2.48 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5594 |
| Provisional designation | 1991 NK1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 25.9 km (#1,621 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0280 |
| Rotation period | 25.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.0 |
| Orbital period | 5.63 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.00 – 3.32 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0508 |
| Inclination | 10.3° |
| 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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