(45510) Kashuba Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 January 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
John H. Kashuba (1947) is a meteorite collector and photographer whose artful high-resolution images of meteorites in thin section appear in books, magazines and online, including his Micro Visions column in Meteorite Times. With Belgian chemist Roger Warin, he authored the Centerpiece column in Meteorite magazine.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2020-02-05), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kashuba is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kashuba is 2.85 au from the Sun and 3.81 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 45510 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 BB23 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.28 km (#10,088 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.191 |
| Rotation period | 27.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.11 |
| Orbital period | 5.11 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.97 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.75 – 3.18 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0733 |
| Inclination | 9.70° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.74 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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