(130320) Maherrassas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 March 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Maher Rassas (b. 1951) is the Mission Assurance Engineer on the Thermal Emission Spectrometer Instrument on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-11-14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Maherrassas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Maherrassas is 3.35 au from the Sun and 2.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 130320 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EL141 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.36 km (#9,950 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0610 |
| Rotation period | 4.49 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.23 |
| Orbital period | 5.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.76 – 3.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.134 |
| Inclination | 2.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.77 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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