(207655) Kerboguan Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 25 July 2007 by Lin, C.-S., Ye, Q.-z. at Lulin.

The National Museum of Natural Science (Kerboguan), a combined science center and natural history museum, is the first and the largest museum of natural science in Taiwan. It entertains more than three million visitors annually, and has become an important educational base for natural science since it opened in 1986.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-10-26), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Kerboguan is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kerboguan is 2.72 au from the Sun and 3.53 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number207655
Provisional designation2007 OE8
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)17.16
Orbital period3.45 years
Semi-major axis2.28 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.81 – 2.76 au
Eccentricity0.207
Inclination3.95°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.801 au

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

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