(6899) Nancychabot Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1988 by S. J. Bus at Cerro Tololo.
Nancy Chabot (b. 1972) is a planetary scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. Her work on siderophile element partitioning has addressed questions about the origin and crystallization of the cores of both major and minor planets.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nancychabot is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nancychabot is 2.99 au from the Sun and 3.99 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6899 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 RP10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.25 km (#8,575 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.216 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.55 |
| Orbital period | 5.01 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.86 – 2.99 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0226 |
| Inclination | 0.940° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.87 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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