(27400) Mikewong Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 11 March 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Mike Wong (b. 1971) is a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley who studies giant planets in the Solar System. He is part of the team that discovered a moon around asteroid (624) Hektor, and he studied a 2009 impact on Jupiter while monitoring of the atmosphere with adaptive optics.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 10), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mikewong is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mikewong is 2.66 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27400 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EE106 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.24 km (#14,624 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.321 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.62 |
| Orbital period | 4.18 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.59 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.27 – 2.92 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.126 |
| Inclination | 13.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.30 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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