(5034) Joeharrington Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 7 August 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.

Named in honor of Joseph Harrington (b. 1967), planetary scientist at Cornell University. Harrington has worked extensively with atmospheric modeling, and his work on modeling the 1994 cometary impacts on Jupiter was featured on the cover of Nature. His work on waves in the atmospheres of the giant planets utilized computer “pipeline” programs to analyze data sets too large to manage by hand. Living by his belief in the way things should be, Harrington has actively promoted the sharing of data and data processing software/tools for the benefit of all. Name proposed by B. E. Clark. Citation written by A. Simon and S. Sullivan.Naming citation (19990728/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Joeharrington is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Joeharrington is 2.19 au from the Sun and 1.28 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	5034
Provisional designation	1991 PW10
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	4.77 km (#11,066 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.371
Rotation period	8.42 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.61
Orbital period	3.50 years
Semi-major axis	2.30 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.88 – 2.72 au
Eccentricity	0.183
Inclination	4.31°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.867 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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