(5132) Maynard Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 June 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.
Named in honor of Owen E. Maynard, who played a major role in the achievement of the first manned landing on the moon. An engineer in the Apollo program from the beginning, he helped design the Apollo spacecraft and oversaw the design of the command-service and lunar modules. He led the team that developed the complex lunar mission flight plans. As chief of the Systems Engineering Division, he was responsible for all aspects of the construction and testing of the Apollo hardware. He planned the early Apollo test flights, including that of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11. Name suggested and citation prepared by R. Attwood.Naming citation (19960828/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Maynard is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Maynard is 2.64 au from the Sun and 1.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5132 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 ME |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.3 km (#4,400 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.218 |
| Rotation period | 3.61 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.6 |
| Orbital period | 4.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.67 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.37 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.115 |
| Inclination | 11.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.36 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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