(78252) Priscio Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 August 2002 by CINEOS at Campo Imperatore.
Priscilla (“Priscio”) Cerroni (b. 1955) works on experiments involving hypervelocity impacts and implications for the study of catastrophic collisions involving minor planets. She is currently a researcher at the Italian INAF-IASF and a team member of VIMS, the imaging spectrometer on board the Cassini mission.Naming citation (20070601/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Priscio is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Priscio is 3.11 au from the Sun and 2.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 78252 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 PF11 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.97 km (#12,814 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.309 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.33 |
| Orbital period | 5.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.99 – 3.32 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0531 |
| Inclination | 10.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.00 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.