(11528) Mie Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 3 December 1991 by Kushida, Y., Muramatsu, O. at Yatsugatake.

Mie Nagata (b. 1963) was a lecturer at the Gotoh Planetarium and Astronomical Museum in Tokyo from 1988 to 1994. She is a part-time lecturer at other planetaria in Tokyo and has strong interest in preschool education in astronomy.Naming citation (20000124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Mie is today

MercuryVenusEarthEarthMarsMarsMieMie

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mie is 2.96 au from the Sun and 3.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number11528
Provisional designation1991 XH
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter8.39 km (#6,232 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.229
Rotation period7.20 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)12.71
Orbital period4.22 years
Semi-major axis2.61 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.19 – 3.03 au
Eccentricity0.162
Inclination13.9°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.22 au

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

Also discovered on 3 December 1991

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