(28796) Ragozzine Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 April 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Darin Ragozzine (b. 1981) is an American planetary scientist at Brigham Young University (USA). He explored the family and satellites of the newly-discovered dwarf planet (136108) Haumea in his Ph.D. work, and specializes in the study of transiting exoplanets and non-Keplerian orbits of small-body satellites.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 11), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ragozzine is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ragozzine is 2.66 au from the Sun and 3.30 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28796 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HW65 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.20 km (#8,640 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0890 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.6 |
| Orbital period | 4.35 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.66 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.36 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.114 |
| Inclination | 5.02° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.36 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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