(26530) Lucferreira Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Lucas Strasburg Ferreira (b. 1991) was awarded second place in the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his materials-and-bioengineering team project. He attends the Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lucferreira is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lucferreira is 2.75 au from the Sun and 2.16 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 26530 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CY96 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.08 km (#10,463 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0960 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.98 |
| Orbital period | 4.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.79 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.50 – 3.08 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.104 |
| Inclination | 4.62° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.49 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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