(7336) Saunders Amor
Discovered on 6 September 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.
R. Stephen Saunders (b. 1940), chief scientist for the Solar System Exploration Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the project scientist for the Mars Surveyor Program 2001/2003 mission, director of JPL's Regional Planetary Image Facility and former project scientist of the Magellan mission to Venus.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Saunders is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Saunders is 3.34 au from the Sun and 4.32 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7336 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 RS1 |
| Orbit class | Amor · near-Earth |
| Rotation period | 4.31 hours |
| Spectral type | Sq |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 18.8 |
| Orbital period | 3.50 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.19 – 3.42 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.482 |
| Inclination | 7.20° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.188 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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