(22540) Mork Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anna Jolene Mork (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her botany project. She attends the Shorewood High School, Seattle, Washington.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mork is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mork is 2.77 au from the Sun and 3.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22540 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FZ67 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.60 km (#13,716 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.343 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.32 |
| Orbital period | 4.88 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.88 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0370 |
| Inclination | 2.22° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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