(17033) Rusty Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 March 1999 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Russell L. (“Rusty”) Schweickart (b. 1935) piloted the Apollo 9 lunar module. He is founder and past president of the Association of Space Explorers. Schweikart is a cofounder of the B612 Foundation, which hopes to deflect a minor planet in a controlled manner. The name was suggested by C. R. Chapman.Naming citation (20041126/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Rusty is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rusty is 2.46 au from the Sun and 2.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17033 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 FR9 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.48 km (#16,293 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.656 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.43 |
| Orbital period | 3.53 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.17 – 2.46 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0623 |
| Inclination | 2.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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- (17034) Vasylshev
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