(29762) Panasiewicz Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 10 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Kinga Panasiewicz (b. 1995) was awarded second place in the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her medicine and health sciences project. She attends the High School in the Name of Stanislaw Staszic, Hrubieszow, Lubelskie, Poland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Panasiewicz is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Panasiewicz is 2.39 au from the Sun and 2.95 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number29762
Provisional designation1999 CK17
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter3.22 km (#14,664 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.383
Rotation period13.1 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)14.27
Orbital period3.45 years
Semi-major axis2.28 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.04 – 2.52 au
Eccentricity0.105
Inclination6.82°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.04 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 10 February 1999

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