(74080) Philippestee Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 July 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Philippe Stée (b. 1968) is a French astrophysicist and president of the Paris Observatory. He directed the Lagrange laboratory that built the ESO VLTI beam combiner MATISSE. Philippe is a specialist on hot and massive stars, and he created the pioneering SIMECA numerical code used to interpret interferometric data from the AMBER focal instrument.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #16, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Philippestee is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Philippestee is 2.97 au from the Sun and 3.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 74080 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 OW |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.39 |
| Orbital period | 4.12 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.57 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 3.00 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.167 |
| Inclination | 6.09° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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