(195900) Rogersudbury Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 September 2002 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Roger Sudbury (b. 1938) provided leadership and expertise in the national security community since joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in 1969. As a key senior leader at the Laboratory, he assisted in initiating the LINEAR Ceres Connection program.Naming citation (20100726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Rogersudbury is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rogersudbury is 2.96 au from the Sun and 2.09 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 195900 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 RS41 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.05 km (#8,858 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0530 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.22 |
| Orbital period | 5.83 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.87 – 3.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.114 |
| Inclination | 6.74° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.87 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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