(27277) Pattybrown Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Patricia Brown mentored a finalist in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. She teaches at the Brownell-Talbot High School, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pattybrown is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pattybrown is 2.42 au from the Sun and 2.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27277 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AY55 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.08 km (#16,953 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.373 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.71 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.02 – 2.45 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0973 |
| Inclination | 2.90° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.00 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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