(333588) Ryanpaquette Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 January 2007 by Mt. Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon.
Ryan A. Paquette (b. 1980) is an American technician and prototype machinist at Lockheed Martin, where he worked in the fabrication, assembly, testing and launch operations of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. He was also a team member for the retrieval and processing of the spacecraft's Sample Recovery Capsule following its mission to asteroid Bennu.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #15, 19), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ryanpaquette is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ryanpaquette is 2.41 au from the Sun and 3.38 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 333588 |
| Provisional designation | 2007 BL33 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.92 |
| Orbital period | 3.79 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.43 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.12 – 2.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.126 |
| Inclination | 7.26° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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