(28766) Monge Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
While a student at the Ecole Royal du Génie, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) solved a problem relating to the design of a fortress that became the germ of his later development of descriptive geometry, a technique for representing three-dimensional objects by their projections on several planes.Naming citation (20020128/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Monge is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Monge is 3.05 au from the Sun and 4.05 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28766 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HP14 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.3 km (#4,955 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0880 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.59 |
| Orbital period | 5.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.06 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.52 – 3.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.178 |
| Inclination | 2.47° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.50 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Gaspard
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Also discovered on 29 April 2000
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