(53839) Scholkopf Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 March 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Bernhard Schölkopf (b. 1968) is the founder and director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and a professor at ETH Zurich. He pioneered machine learning and modeling methods with applications to astronomy, co-discovering a number of exoplanets and developing methods for parameter inference in fields including gravitational wave analysis.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #15, 14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Scholkopf is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Scholkopf is 2.25 au from the Sun and 1.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 53839 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EY197 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.12 km (#16,896 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.157 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.26 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.07 – 2.49 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0934 |
| Inclination | 5.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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