(13560) La Perouse Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 September 1992 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
In 1785 French navigator Jean-François Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse (1741-1788), sailed along the coast of South and North America and across the Pacific to China and Australia. In 1788, his ships L´Astrolabe and La Boussole vanished without a trace. The strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin is named for him.Naming citation (20050919/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where La Perouse is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: La Perouse is 3.18 au from the Sun and 3.99 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13560 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 RX6 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.04 km (#5,729 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.180 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.13 |
| Orbital period | 5.31 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.04 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.75 – 3.34 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0957 |
| Inclination | 9.49° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.76 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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