(30094) Rolfebode Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 March 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Rolfe Bode (b. 1959) is an aerospace engineer who has worked on many NASA missions including MPL-MVACS and the Phoenix Mars mission at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and private space companies including Paragon Space Development Corp. and World View Enterprises.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-01-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Rolfebode is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rolfebode is 2.64 au from the Sun and 2.62 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30094 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 ER141 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.39 km (#14,259 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.244 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.71 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 2.67 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.169 |
| Inclination | 6.44° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.890 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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