(28569) Kallenbach Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 10 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Jonah Kallenbach (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Kallenbach is today

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

Facts

Number28569
Provisional designation2000 ES67
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.91
Orbital period3.44 years
Semi-major axis2.28 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.96 – 2.60 au
Eccentricity0.141
Inclination2.96°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.957 au

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

Also named after someone called Jonah

Also discovered on 10 March 2000

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