(27301) Joeingalls Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Joseph Ingalls mentored a finalist in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. He teaches at the Saint Margaret's Episcopal School, San Juan Capistrano, California, U.S.A.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Joeingalls is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Joeingalls is 2.13 au from the Sun and 2.60 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27301 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AT168 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.50 km (#16,254 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.178 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.85 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.03 – 2.44 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0919 |
| Inclination | 6.41° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.03 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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