(32605) Lucy Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 August 2001 by W. K. Y. Yeung at Desert Eagle.
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40-percent-complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on 1974 Nov. 24 by the International Afar Research Expedition in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #10, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Lucy is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lucy is 2.44 au from the Sun and 2.51 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32605 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 QM213 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.21 km (#7,415 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0610 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.3 |
| Orbital period | 5.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.00 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.35 – 3.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.216 |
| Inclination | 5.44° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.34 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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