(28059) Kiliaan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 July 1998 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Cornelis Kiliaan (ca. 1528-1607) was a Flemish linguist who made the first explanatory dictionary of the Flemish language Etymologicum teutonicae linguae, a work that took forty years of his life. It was printed in 1599 in Antwerp at the famous print-shop of Christoffel Plantin.Naming citation (20071124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kiliaan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kiliaan is 2.91 au from the Sun and 3.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28059 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 OZ7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.55 km (#6,112 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.183 |
| Rotation period | 3.44 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.13 |
| Orbital period | 4.87 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.87 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 3.34 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.164 |
| Inclination | 11.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.39 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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