(79869) Pascalfouque Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 December 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Pascal Fouqué (b. 1958) is a French astrophysicist. He first worked in Paris as a radioastronomer, then moved to Chile for the DENIS infrared survey and the EROS-2 program. Pascal then worked in Toulouse on exoplanets detected by microlensing and moved to Hawaii at CFHT as a resident astronomer to study exoplanets.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #15, 11), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pascalfouque is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pascalfouque is 2.46 au from the Sun and 2.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 79869 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 YG5 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.13 |
| Orbital period | 4.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.80 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.46 – 3.14 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.122 |
| Inclination | 10.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.48 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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