(15002) Shahriarbayegan Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 November 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Shahriar Bayegan (1951–2021) was an Iranian physicist who was a member of the faculty at the Physics Department at Tehran University, Iran, for almost forty years. He served as the director of graduate studies (1983–1990) and department chair (2003–2005). Shahriar co-founded the university's Physics Ph.D. program and led the creation of the School of Physics.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #17, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shahriarbayegan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shahriarbayegan is 2.80 au from the Sun and 1.94 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15002 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 WN38 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.67 km (#6,910 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0990 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.12 |
| Orbital period | 5.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.141 |
| Inclination | 2.31° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 29 November 1997
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