(210292) Mayongsheng Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 6 October 2007 by PMO NEO Survey Program at XuYi.

Ma Yongsheng (b. 1961), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the founder of the Deep Buried Marine Carbonate Gas Reservoir Model, and the first to discover the Puguang gas field and Yuanba gas field in China.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-06-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Mayongsheng is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mayongsheng is 2.67 au from the Sun and 2.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number210292
Provisional designation2007 TW79
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.54
Orbital period4.57 years
Semi-major axis2.75 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.49 – 3.01 au
Eccentricity0.0942
Inclination8.12°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.52 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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