(50725) Margarethuggins Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 March 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Margaret Huggins (1848–1915) was an Irish-English astronomer who was a pioneer of photographic spectrography. She co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899) with her husband, William.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #15, 14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Margarethuggins is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Margarethuggins is 2.86 au from the Sun and 3.43 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 50725 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EH146 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.98 km (#15,269 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.262 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.03 |
| Orbital period | 4.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.61 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.36 – 2.87 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0968 |
| Inclination | 15.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.43 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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