(37222) Sansom Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 November 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Eleanor Sansom (b. 1990) is a British-Australian planetary scientist at Curtin University. She manages the Australian Desert Fireball Network and Global Fireball Observatory collaboration. She completed her Ph.D. in 2017, developing novel statistical techniques for modeling meteoroid trajectories from observations.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #11, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sansom is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sansom is 2.36 au from the Sun and 3.33 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 37222 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 WB142 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.10 km (#14,977 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.351 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.68 |
| Orbital period | 4.04 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.54 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.29 – 2.78 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0953 |
| Inclination | 14.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.34 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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