(28618) Scibelli Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Samantha Marie Scibelli (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for her physics and space science project. She attends the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, Burnt Hills, New York.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Scibelli is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Scibelli is 2.51 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28618 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FK17 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.97 km (#15,284 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.317 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.19 |
| Orbital period | 3.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.29 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.06 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0983 |
| Inclination | 7.67° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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