(9025) Polanskey Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 September 1988 by S. J. Bus at Cerro Tololo.
Carol A. Polanskey (b. 1960) is a science operations expert at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She led the spacecraft operations planning for the Dawn mission team that optimized the science return for the study of Vesta.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Polanskey is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Polanskey is 3.66 au from the Sun and 4.51 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9025 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 SM2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.09 km (#5,689 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0780 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.99 |
| Orbital period | 5.80 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.70 – 3.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.162 |
| Inclination | 2.01° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.69 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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