(35326) Lucastrabla Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 7 March 1997 by Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna.

Luca Strabla (b. 1963) is an Italian engineer and amateur astronomer. His astronomical interests include photometry, minor-body astrometry and software development. He is a co-founder of the Bassano Bresciano Observatory, and he planned and built the electronic part of the automatic robotic telescope located there.Naming citation (20110517/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Lucastrabla is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lucastrabla is 2.70 au from the Sun and 3.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number35326
Provisional designation1997 EV7
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter5.57 km (#9,611 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0620
Absolute magnitude (H)14.72
Orbital period5.61 years
Semi-major axis3.16 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.70 – 3.62 au
Eccentricity0.146
Inclination1.12°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.68 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Luca

Also discovered on 7 March 1997

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