(20470) Kubica Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 July 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jeremy Kubica (b. 1979) is an American researcher at the McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing Frameworks team that is developing advanced shift-and-stack techniques to discover faint outer solar system objects.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kubica is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kubica is 2.29 au from the Sun and 2.11 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20470 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 NZ5 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.1 km (#5,067 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0600 |
| Rotation period | 3.66 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.87 |
| Orbital period | 3.75 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.75 – 3.08 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.277 |
| Inclination | 13.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.744 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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