(34838) Lazowski Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 September 2001 by W. K. Y. Yeung at Desert Eagle.
Eugene Lazowski (1913-2006) was a Polish medical doctor. During the Second World War, he created a fake outbreak of highly contagious epidemic typhus in and around the town of Rozwadów. By doing so, he risked his own life, but saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-04-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lazowski is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lazowski is 3.42 au from the Sun and 4.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34838 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 SK262 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.57 km (#5,371 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0820 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.9 |
| Orbital period | 5.63 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.87 – 3.45 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0915 |
| Inclination | 9.91° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.88 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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