(2200) Pasadena Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.

Named for a suburb of Los Angeles, California. Prominent astronomical institutions in Pasadena are the California Institute of Technology (which operates Palomar Observatory), the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Name proposed by E. Bowell.Naming citation (MPC 5524), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Pasadena is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pasadena is 2.24 au from the Sun and 2.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	2200
Provisional designation	6090 P-L
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	8.06 km (#6,519 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.119
Rotation period	36.0 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.06
Orbital period	3.73 years
Semi-major axis	2.40 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.05 – 2.76 au
Eccentricity	0.147
Inclination	4.59°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.05 au

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

Also discovered on 24 September 1960

More named asteroids discovered by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

All 958

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