(6625) Nyquist Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Laurence E. Nyquist (b. 1939) is a planetary scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His meticulous work on the chronometry of a wide range of planetary materials has been pivotal in unraveling the time scales for accretion, differentiation and impacts on meteorite parent bodies.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nyquist is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nyquist is 3.71 au from the Sun and 4.70 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6625 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EX41 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.70 km (#5,276 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.130 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.64 |
| Orbital period | 5.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.15 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 3.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.190 |
| Inclination | 1.31° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.56 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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