(27500) Mandelbrot Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 April 2000 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Benoit Mandelbrot (b. 1924) is a French-American mathematician. He has studied geometric and physical structures, to which he gave the name fractals, that are self-similar at different scales. Fractal concepts have found application to many disciplines, from cardiology to the analysis of stock-market prices.Naming citation (20011101/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mandelbrot is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mandelbrot is 3.54 au from the Sun and 4.21 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27500 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GW132 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.5 km (#4,324 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0700 |
| Rotation period | 5.74 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.38 |
| Orbital period | 5.63 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.50 – 3.83 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.209 |
| Inclination | 1.38° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.50 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Benoit
All asteroids named after someone called Benoit
Also discovered on 12 April 2000
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