(178679) Piquette Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 August 2000 by M. W. Buie at Cerro Tololo.
Marcus R. Piquette (b. 1990), a graduate student researcher at the University of Colorado, served as a Student Dust Counter instrument scientist for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Piquette is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Piquette is 3.49 au from the Sun and 4.10 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 178679 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QT247 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.78 |
| Orbital period | 5.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.10 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 3.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.179 |
| Inclination | 0.252° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.55 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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