(333565) Rani Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 January 2006 by CSS at Catalina.
Rani Chohan Gran (b. 1972) is an American science communicator and chemist. As a public-affairs specialist for planetary science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, she helped share the milestones of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to deliver rocks and dust from an asteroid to Earth.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #17, 27), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Rani is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rani is 1.82 au from the Sun and 2.63 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 333565 |
| Provisional designation | 2006 AJ34 |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 17.18 |
| Orbital period | 2.57 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.88 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.71 – 2.04 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0887 |
| Inclination | 24.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.769 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.