(47078) Llebaria Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 December 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Antoine Llebaria (b. 1940) was a research engineer at the Laboratoire Astrophysique de Marseille. An expert in image processing, he led the analysis of the data of many space missions, including France's D2B mission in 1975, the SOHO-LASCO solar coronagraph, the GALEX ultra-violet deep survey, the Rosetta cometary mission, and the CoRoT exoplanetary mission.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #6, 11), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Llebaria is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Llebaria is 3.13 au from the Sun and 2.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 47078 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 YS2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 15.8 km (#2,931 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0490 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.11 |
| Orbital period | 5.80 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.10 – 3.36 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0397 |
| Inclination | 15.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.13 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Antoine
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Also discovered on 17 December 1998
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